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B1 Russian listening practice · Russian · Curated for intermediate learners
What is “Пятёрочка” and what are “нямы”?
Пятёрочка (Pyatyorochka) is Russia’s biggest discount supermarket chain, with thousands of stores from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok. In the 2020s, the chain ran a series of plush-toy promo campaigns: small fuzzy mascots called нямы (nyamy), handed out as collectibles when shoppers spent above a set amount. Customers obsessed over completing the set, traded duplicates online, and built whole TikToks around the haul-and-collect ritual. The brand-and-toy combo became a small Russian internet meme.
In this clip, a host quietly mocks a “free spoon” giveaway: “в Пятёрочке на 800 рублей закупилась, и мне в подарок за чеком нямов дали” (“I shopped 800 rubles at Pyatyorochka and they gave me nyamy plush as a receipt gift”).
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.