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My impression is that "живопись" just means 'painting'. I'm not sure "icon" is correct here. The Russian word for icon is "икона", no?[/quote]

The Trinity is an icon though, I've seen it....

Could the word живопись in a broader context include icons though?

My impression is that "живопись" just means 'painting'. I'm not sure "icon" is correct here. The Russian word for icon is "икона", no?[/quote]

The Trinity is an icon though, I've seen it.


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5.50/0.62= 8.87$ :)[/quote]

The Soviet Rouble isn't the same value as the Russian rouble. Wasn't 5 roubles 50 kopckes quite expensive in 1979?

The untranslated words are the names of companies that produced it, so I've left them as they are. They are basically lots of words stuck together, e.g.
Rosglavpoligrafproma is something like...