Do you have a love for vintage items, are nostalgic for the past and want to get your hands on items that would remind you of a bygone era? Then you should pay attention to the flea market of Petrozavodsk.
Market "Vintage shop"
This flea market opens on a regular basis in the premises of the former OTZ workshop on the territory of the Petrovskaya Sloboda complex (usually on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 6 pm). Here everyone gets a chance to acquire vinyl records, gramophones, dishes, porcelain figurines, clothes that were at the height of fashion in the 80s, glasses, old brooches, beads, bracelets and amulets, telephones, cup holders, cameras, Soviet waffle irons, New Year's toys, model cars, watches, harmonicas, boxes, postcards and books, suitcases, all kinds of badges (university, TRP, parachutists) and coins. In addition, during the event, guests are entertained by musicians, dancers, and DJs.
Antique shops
Looking for something unique and antique? The following shops are at your service:
- Vintage Courtyard (Pervomaisky Prospekt, 8): In this retro-commissioned shop you can find Soviet floor lamps, cognac glasses, dishes, old cameras, gramophone records, suitcases, watches, various badges, vintage accessories such as jewelry and sunglasses.
- "Onega Antiquary" (Kalinina Street, 2): the store specializes in the sale of coins, postage stamps, certificates and diplomas, old cameras and radios, watches, dolls, copper dishes, coal irons, items of military history and village life.
- “Taide” (Kirov street, 5): visitors to this antique shop will be able to purchase icons (on sale - “Crucifixion”, “Carved icon of Calvary,” “Joy of All Who Sorrow”), old photographs (up to 1917, from 1918 to 1941.), postcards (until 1918, from 1918 to 1975), textiles (a towel made of homespun linen with embroidery will cost 2,600 rubles), paintings, cup holders (cupronickel cup holder Kremlin costs 800 rubles), candlesticks (bronze candlestick "Beetles" with gilding costs 4900 rubles), spinning wheels (wooden carpentry spinning wheels cost from 400 rubles).
Shopping in Petrozavodsk
Shopping lovers should take a closer look at the shopping centers "Passage", "Lotos", "Tetris", "Vesna". Collectors will be interested in specialized meetings - they are organized in the building of the PGUPS branch (Michurinskaya Street, 5) on Sundays from 10 am to 1 pm.
Before leaving the capital of Karelia, do not forget to pack souvenirs in your suitcases in the form of Karelian shungite (it is better to buy this medicinal mineral of natural origin in the Art Salon on Herzen Street, 41), patchwork (quilted bedspreads, pot holders, decorative panels), Karelian ceramics (go for these products to the Center for Traditional Crafts at 13 Kirov Street), products from Karelian birch.
