Flea markets in Penza are in demand among "hunters" for antiques and collectibles.
Fashion from the chest of drawers
Before settling in a new place, the flea market (formerly Bogdanovsky market) galloped across Penza like a flea. His new location is the roadside not far from the high-tech plant, next to the Ternovsky cemetery.
At this flea market (operates on Sundays from 08:00 to 15:00), which received the status of a fair, they sell coins, busts of Lenin, deer antlers (some sellers ask for about 30,000 rubles for them), figurines, clothes, old grandfather hats, postcards depicting actors, musical instruments, submarine periscopes, DVDs, 60s firefighter helmets, old carpets, indoor flowers, homemade embroidery, household appliances, toys, watches, family rarities, spreading the goods both on the ground and and on the camp and tables under the canopies.
And on New Year's Eve, here you will be able to find New Year's cards, retro toys and Santa Clauses made of papier-mâché (Christmas tree decorations cost customers both 20-50 rubles / 1 piece and 200-1500 rubles).
Flea market on the Arbekovsky market
At this weekend flea market, visitors are offered to buy used clothes and shoes, Soviet toys (tanks, cars, dolls, teddy bears), records, and books.
Other retail outlets
As for the philatelists, they gather on Sundays in the Palace of Culture of 40 years of October (Leonova Street, 1a) from 13:00 to 15:00. Tourists - fans of vintage, may be interested in the antique shops of Penza: "Silver Age" (Suvorova Street, 28); "Shop of Antiquities" (Railway Station Square, 1g / 1); "Collector" (Sovetskaya street, 2): this gallery specializes in the sale of books, magazines and newspapers (up to the 30s of the 20th century), old icons and other religious objects, busts, prints and paintings, statuettes, old medals, awards signs, badges of the Soviet period (honors, shock workers, voluntary societies), pre-revolutionary photos and postcards, gramophones and music boxes, old and modern binoculars, cigarette cases, ink sets, securities and bonds, old documents (passports, certificates, cards, certificates) and other things.
Shopping in Penza
In memory of visiting Penza, tourists are advised to buy local Uglevka vodka; beer produced at the Samko brewery; Nikolsky crystal (for shopping you can go to the exhibition and trade pavilion "Penza souvenirs"); Abashev's clay toys - whistles in the form of ladies, gentlemen and bizarre animals (it is worth looking into the shops on Sovkhoznaya, 15 and Izmailova streets, 34); souvenirs in folk style (pay attention to “Home Collection” and “Wanderer's Shop”).
