In Moscow, Alexander Stakhanov repairs an arcade game called Circus in the city's new Museum of Soviet Slot Machines . The 25-year-old is one of a group of students who two years ago decided to make a home for the games they played as children, according to the Reuters news agency, which visited the museum this week.
"We remembered our childhood and the games we used to play, so we came up with this idea. It wasn't easy tracking down the machines, and most of them didn't work," Stakhanov, now a graduate student in economics, told Reuters.
Of the 50 machines that have been gathered so far, about 20 are now in working order, kicking into life when a player inserts old Soviet 15 kopek coins.
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