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The Balkan Sobranie tobacco business was established in London in 1879 by Albert Weinberg (born in Romania in 1849), whose naturalization papers dated in 1886 [2] confirm his nationality and show that he had emigrated to England in the 1870s at a time when hand-made cigarettes in the Eastern European and Russian tradition were becoming fashionable in Europe. [3]
These brands include decorative ones like Eve, marketed strictly toward women like Virginia Slims, or as evening-out styles like Sobranie Cocktail, designed to appeal to women, and their counterpart Sobranie Black Russian, the darker colours of which targeted a male market. [1]
Cigarettes containing Turkish tobacco (which includes those varieties grown in what is now Greece) exclusively continued to be manufactured and sold as "Turkish cigarettes" in the US (brands Murad, Helmar, Fatima, and others), in the UK (Sullivan & Powell, Benson & Hedges, Fribourg & Treyer, Balkan Sobranie), and Germany (where the so-called ...
Pages in category "Russian cigarette brands" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In 1990, there was a summer-long cigarette shortage that led to public outrage and protests in major cities. In Moscow, the city council decided to ration cigarette purchases to half a pack of cigarettes per day. The shortage was caused when half the Russian cigarette factories closed for repair, and imports from Bulgaria plunged.
Black Russian, a type of Sobranie cigarette; Black Russian, a variety of tomato; Members of the African diaspora who emigrated to Russia; Frederick Bruce Thomas, Mississippi native and the son of former slaves who became a prominent citizen of Moscow and, later, Constantinople; Black Russian, a Motown-label band in 1980; Black Russians, an ...
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Jin Ling is a Russian brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by the Kaliningrad-based manufacturer Baltic Tobacco Company (Russian: Балтийская табачная фабрика, BTC). Other places where this brand is manufactured include Ukraine, Moldova, Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates. [4]