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For a month long I worked on resolving various issues with this resource. Many of the issues demanded attention, but I didn't find time and courage to get rid of. Anyways, I've made some new features, and here is a list of most interesting of them.

Hi, fellows! For a long time I had idea to write a blog about a subject. Besides a frame from movie, I want to define what exactly cap there could be, based on time period, place of shooting, bottle lables etc. Here we go!

We have new remote city in our catalog - Omsk!

During the last weeks I've been working on the project renovation, mostly concerned it's web appearance. Not everything can be seen from the outside, but anyway here is a change list.

A copy of the Vicror Zhdanov's post about restoring the Karmadon cap in bad condition.

Greetings from Samara's amateur archeologists!

It may be interesting to some users to see these statistics. I have aggregated the data from the last few months, running from May 2012 (the creation of the website) up to now.

Great friends of our catalog, Nickolay and Andrey Federov, have produced for us a small edition dealing with aluminum caps! We give them much appreciation for doing this!

There were plenty of caps for milk bottles: carton seals, aluminum foil, and even crown caps.

Numerous varieties of soda water were sold in the USSR. Each factory produced its own water and bottled it with its own crown caps, which is why it’s very difficult for collectors to determine the exact - or even the approximate - date of manufacture of a particular product. As we know, the GOST standard indicates only the beginning of the issue period, so there can be considerable uncertainty in dating based on that method: GOST in USSR covered a period not of just one or two years but decades.