Quote Originally Posted by BappaBa View Post
=) There was no equal pay. =)
Yep. ) People of different occupations had different salaries. The trick was that people of the same occupation had basically the same payment throughout the country (with some exceptions).

Based on my family experience: an engineer got 190 roubles per month, a nurse got around 90 roubles. Student's scholarship was 40-50 roubles.
People who worked in the Nothern regions had bigger salaries due to bad weather conditions, and men could easily have 600-800 roubles per month and more (it was common to move there for a few years to earn some quick/big money).