— Oh, by the way, I brought bubliks, — our heroine remembered and reached into her bag, took out a package with bubliks on a string and put them on a plate
Not a bagel. Bigger, drier, harder.
One bublik
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Its smaller and drier relatives, the baranka and the sushka, are in the cinema counter.
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— Bubliks are certainly tougher than croissants, but that’s where it lies, our secret, in toughness, in the huge round hole in our soul.
Ivan Kulikov — Базар с баранками (Bazaar with Baranki)
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