Old Soviet Grandmaster chessmen set.
Wooden weighted Russian chess pieces vintage.1960s-1970s model of Soviet classic Grandmaster chess. You can see still carved rooks, bishops, figured form of the pawn, still wooden white knights. The latest Grandmaster chess models produced more primitive with both colors of knights made of plastic. This is good one model of Grandmaster vintage Russian chess. 

! Chess pieces only. The chess table used as background only!

White knights made of wood.
Black knights & finials of the kings/queens made of plastic.

Height of the king is 10.8 cm., base is 4.5 cm.
Height of the pawn is 5.5 cm., base is 3.3 cm.

Damages: two white pawns lost their weightings, finials of the kings and three bishops are not original (push pins instead), black bishops are from another similar Grandmaster chessmen set. 

Chess was a very popular game in the Soviet Union. 
Children and adults were playing chess regularly, playing at home, on the streets, in the clubs