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===In the Soviet Union and East Asia=== {{multiple image | footer = Left: Majak cuckoo clock with a [[bakelite]] front decorated with spruce branches. [[Rami Garipov]] museum. Right: A Majak mechanical movement. | align = left | image1 = Russian cuckoo clock Majak.jpeg | width1 = {{#expr: (80 * 720 / 500) round 0}} | image2 = Mechanical movement Soviet cuckoo clock.jpeg | width2 = {{#expr: (132 * 720 / 500) round 0}} }} From the early 1950s<ref>{{Cite web|title=SCZ|url=http://ussr-watch.com/serdobsky-watch-factory/|access-date=2022-07-08|website=ussr-watch.com|language=ru}}</ref> until the 1990s, cuckoo clocks were made in the former [[Soviet Union]] by the [[Serdobsk]] Clock Factory, which were sold under the trademark ''ΠΠ°ΡΠΊ'' ([[transliteration|transliterated]] as Majak) from 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History of Serdobsk Clock Factory|url=http://oldserdobsk.ru/1000/046/1046100.html|access-date=2022-07-08|website=oldserdobsk.ru|language=en}}</ref> They produced a range of models with a distinctive style; a colourful front painted with floral and vegetal motifs, spruce branches in relief, Russian motifs, basic decoration or any, a deer head on top, etc. One model in particular, composed of a bird on top and five wine leaves was directly based on a Black Forest one. In [[Japan]], its production began in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Poppo Musical Cuckoo Clock|url=https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/poppo-musical-cuckoo-clock.97540/|access-date=2022-07-30|website=nawccc.org|language=en}}</ref> Those early timepieces, in the Black Forest style, were marketed under the trademark Poppo by Tezuka Clock Co., Ltd., [[Tokyo]], and usually had stamped "Made in [[Occupation of Japan|Occupied Japan]]" on plate and dial. This term was used in items produced in the country between late 1945 and early 1952, after [[World War II]]. In [[China]] and [[South Korea]], cuckoo clocks also began to be manufactured in the second half of the 20th century.
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