Interested in outlets such as the Volgograd flea markets? Collectors, optimists and romantics are advised to visit them. Perhaps they will be able to get their lucky ticket out there, having found a worthwhile and valuable item among the numerous junk.
Flea market "Mirok"
This flea market got its name because it is located next to the former cinema "Mir" - sellers flock here on weekends to occupy themselves with selling second-hand goods.
At the flea market “Mirok” (trade takes place on weekends and holidays from morning till lunchtime) everyone will be able to get old Christmas-tree and soft toys, Soviet kitchen utensils (pot-bellied teapots, samovars, tin cans, originally from the 60s), dresses and coats of a long-gone fashion, vintage glasses and bags, worn-out shoes, cast-iron irons with ornate handles, skins, horns and stuffed animals, Lenin busts, postcard sets, antique silver and bronze, a folding mirror in a carved frame, originally from the 70s, knitted rugs from local craftswomen, as well as other things with history.
Flea market on the Krasnooktyabrsky "Bird" market
This flea market is a place where they sell books, including Soviet textbooks, school uniforms, radios, pot-bellied samovars, tea service items and other kitchen utensils, locksmith and musical instruments, original accessories and other interesting goods.
Flea market near the Lenin Palace of Culture
Travelers who come here will have a chance to become the owner of rare books, old stamps, postcards and coins, Soviet photographic equipment and other items.
Antiques
If you wish, you can go to the antique store "Golden Griffin" (Mira Street, 13), where you will be offered to buy a 5-kopeck coin of 1807 (its cost is about 20,000 rubles), silver table forks (a set of 6 forks costs 45,000 rubles), silver cigarette cases (prices start at 7,500 rubles), porcelain figurines (for “Ballerina with a mirror” they will ask you to pay 27,000 rubles, and for “Hare with a pipe” - 6,800 rubles), all kinds of icons (“Lord Almighty”, “Theotokos of Pechersk Svenskaya”, “Nicholas the Wonderworker”, “Burning Bush”, “The Nativity of the Virgin”).
Shopping in Volgograd
Shopaholics are advised to go shopping in one of the city's malls - “Park House”, “Pyramid”, “Diamant”. Leaving Volgograd, it is important not to forget to acquire items made of goat down, honey, mustard oil, patchwork books, miniature sculptures "Motherland Calls", souvenirs on a military theme, reed items in the form of houses, wells and churches.
