geeteeiii , very cool thread, and a really nice collection of Soviet-era bike kit! What former USSR-occupied country are you from? If I had to venture a guess based on the architecture in some of your photos, I'd say one of the Baltic states. I lived in Czechosolvakia for a year in 1990, immediately after the Berlin Wall and Velvet Revolution, and travelled a lot through the bloc. I biked a lot around southern Bohemia (also known as the Czech Highlands) where my dad was from and where I lived that year, riding on a borrowed Favorit from my cousin. It had the cool analog speedometer, as well, but there's not much else I remember about it.
pastorbobnlnh I'm guessing the lettering on the tires was not in Cyrillic because the Soviet brands were distributed throughout the Soviet Bloc where many of the languages used the Latin alphabet?