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Ring-shaped pyshki, Saint Petersburg
Type doughnut

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

Types

Pyshki are either ring-shaped or without a hole.

  • Пышки

    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".

  • Donut Eatery SPB

    Pyshechnaya, Bolshaya Konushennaya Street, Saint Petersburg, founded in the 1960s

  • Пышечная, Новосибирск

    Novosibirsk Pyshechnaya, Leninsky City District, opened in the mid-twentieth century

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