Pyshka

Pyshka or ponchik (Russian: пышка, pl. pyshki пышки; пончик, pl. ponchiki пончики) is a Russian variety of doughnut.

Pyshka

Ring-shaped pyshki, Saint Petersburg
Type	doughnut

Types

Pyshki are either ring-shaped or without a hole.

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  Pyshki without a hole, Novosibirsk pyshki cafe

Regional name variations

In Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk, the dish is called "pyshka" and the cafe is called "pyshechnaya". In Moscow, it is called "ponchik", the doughnut eatery is called "ponchikovaya".

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  Pyshechnaya, Bolshaya Konushennaya Street, Saint Petersburg, founded in the 1960s
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  Novosibirsk Pyshechnaya, Leninsky City District, opened in the mid-twentieth century

External links

• Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg. The Guardian.