On this day, but 27 years earlier, on January 31 the first McDonalds restaurant opened in Moscow. It was also the first one in the whole country - in the Soviet Union. The chain's first Soviet restaurant opened on Moscow's Pushkin Square. See the images from TASS photo archive.
First McDonalds in the USSR
The first ever McDonald's opened in Moscow on January 31 in 1990
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The opening of the first McDonald's restaurant near Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow, January 31, 1990
© Oleg Buldakov/Fotokhronika TASS Workers at the first Soviet McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow
© Vitaly Sozinov/Fotokhronika TASS Hundreds of people line up around the first McDonald's restaurant in the Soviet Union at Moscow's Pushkin Square, on its opening day
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko The first visitors in McDonald's restaurant
© Vitaly Sozinov/Fotokhronika TASS The opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in Moscow
© Vitaly Sozinov/Fotokhronika TASS Workers at the first McDonald's restaurant in Moscow
© Oleg Buldakov/Fotokhronika TASS The first visitors in McDonald's restaurant
© Oleg Buldakov/Fotokhronika TASS The opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in Moscow
© Oleg Buldakov/Fotokhronika TASS The first visitors in McDonald's restaurant
© Oleg Buldakov/Fotokhronika TASS The first visitors in McDonald's restaurant
© Oleg Buldakov/Fotokhronika TASS