MIR, Raduga (mostly children's fiction), Progress (popular science, if I remember correctly) - these publishers were really cheap in 80s and 90s India, compared

MIR, Raduga (mostly children's fiction), Progress (popular science, if I remember correctly) - these publishers were really cheap in 80s and 90s India, compared to similar books in terms of content, printing and binding. Perhaps that's why they were such a favourite. I used to frequent a bookstore solely devoted to these called Vostok. That bookstore is long gone. I still have many of these, some gifted by relatives, in my shelves today. These days, at book fairs and on sites like OLX, certain unscrupulous sellers have taken to selling whatever such Soviet hardbacks they can find at astronomical prices. To be fair to them, it's a supply and demand problem.