On the path, coming back from the bread store, were Kolya and Lyudmila.

Yeah and there's, you know, in CA, it's unlike it is here, they've got bread stores.

She was the epitome of collective power and endurance - as Soviet as the patient lines at the bread store.

In Dushanbe, long lines formed outside bread stores by dawn.

But such caution also means that bread stores sometimes run out before closing time.

Even his wife has to call the bread store down the block if there is an emergency.

Inside the Soviet Union the end of the era, if not the man, is told by lines outside bread stores and empty shelves inside.

"Our first reaction was, 'What's a bread store?' "

But today, bread stores throughout the city were either empty or had lines of fuming customers trailing outside and down the sidewalks.

It is usually sold at Iranian bread stores, in distinctive clear bottles, showing the brown colored sauce.