Kubanskaya is a Russian, flavoured brand of vodka or nastoyka with a lemon flavour. Kubanskaya was popular among expatriates living in Moscow during the 1990s. The

1998 Russian financial crisis The Russian financial crisis (also called the ruble crisis or the Russian flu) began in Russia on 17 August 1998. It resulted in the Russian government and the Russian Central Bank devaluing the ruble and defaulting on its debt. The crisis had s ...

triggered an exodus of the Moscow expatriates, and Kristall ceased production. The vodka was mentioned in the novel ''

Moscow-Petushki ''Moscow-Petushki'', also published as ''Moscow to the End of the Line'', ''Moscow Stations'', and ''Moscow Circles'', is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev. Written between 1969 ...

'', and a song by the

Zelenograd Zelenograd ( rus, Зеленогра́д, p=zʲɪlʲɪnɐˈgrat, lit. ''green city'') is a city and administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia. The city of Zelenograd and the territory under its jurisdiction form the Zelenogradsky Administrative O ...

rock group NTO Retsept was called "Kubanskaya".

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