"White Sea Canal" in the USSR

• "White Sea Canal" in the USSR

Make cigarettes was established in 1932 at the factory Uritsky in Leningrad. And soon, "White Sea Canal" has spread throughout the Soviet Union, and even penetrated abroad.

"Ultra-thin, translucent tissue paper is not exposed to selitrovaniyu, and its edges are joined without adhesive by mechanical pressing of special cogwheels. Elegance of form, the immediacy of sensations give cigarettes a refined and unique identity. One can enjoy a unique, aromatic tobacco taste without chemical impurities through the mouthpiece, absorbing the cooled tobacco smoke. "

This brand of cigarettes was established in 1932 at the factory Uritsky in Leningrad. Author tobacco blend - technologist Ioanidi Vasily Ivanovich. Author of the picture on the package - artist A. Tarakanov.

It can be seen that the pack is still depicted on the border of the USSR state to the Soviet-Finnish war.

It is said that the diameter of the Soviet cigarettes, including "White Sea Canal", was 7, 62 mm supposed to, if necessary, on the same machine to run cartridges release.

In the 1940s, drawing a map on the packaging looked somewhat different: on it was marked as the Suez and the Kiel Canal. This design was aimed to show that the White Sea-Baltic Canal was the most of extended world.

The Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, the exhibition dedicated to devaysa smoking, you can find the "White Sea".

Once one of the suburban factories, where produced, along with a subject a fair amount of cigarettes other brands of logistics errors brought to X tonnes less tobacco for "White Sea" and on the same X tonnes more tobacco for cigarettes of the brand "Vogue" (Vogue). But the line did not stop. So for a while all the harsh Ryazan men smoked kosher "Vogue" in Shtaket.

The export version:

The cigarettes smoked Belomorkanal 4% of the conservative Russian smokers who have no idea about light cigarettes and cigarettes at all, although there are now filtered cigarettes White Sea.