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The problem of studying of the "ethnic" markets under the open sky of a Post-Soviet era provides need to track their genesis, to reveal and describe historical predecessors. During the Soviet erait is legal collective-farm markets and the open ware markets ("flea markets") and also the spontaneous, but permanent book fairs, markets organized by black marketeers. Extremely poor historiography of a problem allows to allocate three main models of the Soviet markets: spontaneous mass markets of emergency situations ("sukharevka"), markets of an era of the legal market relations (New Economic Policy times), markets of a stable Soviet era. The prototypes of "the ethnic markets" which arose in the Far East during late imperial era ("manzovsky markets") were destroyed after the Great crisis.