Guess the Purpose of This Soviet-Era Item

Here is another installment of the «Evening Quiz». If you«re here for the first time, familiarize yourself with the simple rules.

Your task is to guess, based on the photo, how this item was used during the Soviet era. The item was found on the classifieds site Avito. Today it might seem useless, but in the last century, such things were in use.

Try to choose the correct answer from the three options within 30 seconds:

• it«s a cigarette case;
• it»s a compass;
• it«s a lighter.

If you managed, you can test yourself in the previous installment, where you need to determine the purpose of another item from Soviet everyday life.

For those confident in their knowledge about life in the USSR, we offer to answer ten questions about that time. Only those who lived through that era can pass the test brilliantly.