Many people have valued quality and design USSR nixies, VFD, such as monster IN18, or tiny IV9. Correlation of price/quality for USSR produced nixies - one of best in the world. Our nixies usually was produced for military, and not important where you want to use it, in Clock, or counter, you will be complacent.

Nixies were used as numeric displays in early digital voltmeters, multimeters, frequency counters and many other types of technical equipment. They also appeared in costly digital time displays used in research and military establishments, and in many early electronic desktop calculators, including the first: the vacuum tube-based Sumlock-Comptometer ANITA Mk VII of 1961. Later alphanumeric versions in fourteen segment display format found use in airport arrival/departure signs and stock ticker displays. Some elevators also used nixies to display the floor numbers.