Belonged to Manuel Suquet Delgado. A similar one in the collection was gifted by Jorge Pantoja Amengual.

2025.6

Mirta Suquet

Gift

Kharkivskyi Zavod Elektroapparatury

1973 - circa 1976

Kharkov 25 (aka Kharkiv 25)

Maker: Kharkiv Electrical Apparatus Plant (Kharkivskyi Zavod Elektroapparatury), Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR — later the "Ekho" electric-shaver plant. Exported through the Soviet state foreign-trade organization V/O Raznoexport, Moscow. Date: No explicit date on the packaging. The "Kharkiv" series entered serial production in 1956; the model-25 is a mid-series model most plausibly dating to the 1960s. Manufacture within 1959–1990 is well-supported. Place of Origin: Manufactured in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR; exported via Moscow (Raznoexport). Spanish-language packaging indicates production for a Spanish-speaking export market (Cuba).

Note

yellow sticker on the mirror under lid of pouch

220.00

price noted

Box (top label): "AFEITADORA ELECTRICA" / "ХАРКIВ·25"; (side): "V/O RASNOEXPORT, URSS, MOSCU" (V/O Raznoexport, USSR, Moscow). Booklet (cover): "AFEITADORA ELECTRICA" / "ХАРКIВ·25." Shaver: a recessed model/spec plate appears on the body (not legible in the image); it likely bears the model name and electrical ratings. (Note: the packaging uses the Ukrainian spelling "ХАРКIВ"; the line is also known by the Russian "Харьков.")

Box: 16.0 x 11.5 x 5.3; Leather pouch: 14.7 x 9.5 x 4.5; Cord length: 143; Electric Shaving Razor head: 13.0

case, electric razor, electric razor cap, brush

Case

Box

Materials: Shaver — molded plastic body (cream and red), metal shaving head, rubber/PVC coiled cord, plastic plug. Case — leather or imitation leather with embossed mock-crocodile grain and a metal stud. Booklet — printed paper. Box — lithographed paperboard. Technique: Injection-molded plastic appliance with electric motor and disc-blade head; lithographed paper box label and booklet; embossed faux-crocodile case.

Good

Maker/series: the Kharkiv shavers were among the most widely distributed Soviet electric razors, made in Kharkiv from 1956; numbered models succeeded one another, with the -25 falling in the 1960s range.

Export channel: "V/O Raznoexport" (В/О Разноэкспорт) was the USSR's foreign-trade enterprise for miscellaneous consumer goods; together with the Spanish packaging, it confirms this as a Soviet export specifically prepared for Cuban (Spanish-speaking) consumers — a clear instance of COMECON-era Soviet imports in Cuban daily life.