BERIOZKA

[Ann Ellinger]

Please, help to translate.

Word is used in the following sentence: I have this old doll with a tag on containing this work, trying to find out the language and more about the doll. I also has some of the following word on it: MOCKOBCKAR ( R IS BACKWORDS),
THE DOLL HAD SOME KIND OF OLIVE GREEN UNIFORM/CAPE/BLACK BOOTS, ARMY TYPE HAT AND IS PLAYING AN ACCORDIAN

CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHAT COUNTRY MY DECEASED COUSIN PURCHASED THIS DOLL IN.

Thanks in advance

[суслик]

is it the name of the shop? in Soviet times we had a shop in the center of Moscow selling things like that for dollars or other foreign currency, or this can be a name of the doll? definitely, Russian

[Aiduza]

Foreign trade and currency
Main article: Foreign trade of the Soviet Union
Largely self-sufficient, the Soviet Union traded little in comparison to its economic strength. However, trade with noncommunist countries increased in the 1970s as the government sought to compensate gaps in domestic production with imports.

In general, fuels, metals, and timber were exported. Machinery, consumer goods, and sometimes grain were imported. In the 1980 trade with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) member states accounted for about half the country's volume of trade.

The Soviet currency (ruble) was non-convertible after 1932 (when trade in gold-convertible "czervonetz", introduced by Lenin in NEP years was suspended) until the late eighties. It was impossible (both for citizens and state-owned businesses) to freely buy or sell foreign currency even though the "exchange rate" was set and published regularly. Buying or selling foreign currency on a black market was a serious crime until the late eighties. Individuals who were paid from abroad (for example writers whose books were published abroad) normally had to spend their currency in a foreign-currency-only chain of state-owned "Beryozka" ("Birch-tree") stores. Once a free conversion of currency was allowed, the exchange rate plummeted from its official values by almost a factor of 10.

Overall, the banking system was highly centralized and fully controlled by a single state-owned Gosbank, responsive to the fulfillment of the government's economic plans. Soviet banks furnished short-term credit to state-owned enterprises.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union

[Доброжеватель]

Beriozka was a chain of Soviet shops for foreigners, with a wide range of souvenirs. (Some Soviet people also could buy imported goods there, provided that they had currency or special kinds of cheques).

Definitely this doll is depicting a Russian soldier.

МОСКОВСКАЯ БЕРЕЗКА -- Beriozka in Moscow

[Dimking]

Ever heard about Moscow? (hey, that's not in Idaho!) :-))

[lоpuh]

Could it be the name of the doll, kinda Moscow Birch?
чуть не написалось Moscow Bitch :))) oh!oh!, pardonnez moi :))

[Скай]

All these people are lying!

BERIOZKA is the Russian word for worthy KGB informer.

Such dolls were standard souvenirs for foreign informers after they helped to arrest three enemy spies or conveyed 5,000 roubles worth of secret information.

[Aiduza]

Oh yeah, and they also contained built-in bluetooth transmitters ;-)

[Shumov]

If the picture below matches your "doll", then it is of Private Vassily Terkin - a fictional character created by A. Tvardovsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Tvardovsky

[Aiduza]

Moscow Bitch, all right! :)

[Dimking]

Шумов-сан,
ху ись Василий Телкин энивей? :))