Three layers (one hidden) with six marbles each. Two holes make the puzzle workable. This entry is for the body with six leaves.

• Inventor: Unknown
• Mechanism: Moving Hole
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: USSR
• Year: 1985
• Original Price: $1.83 USD
• Current Price: No Data

This puzzle consists of three layers with six holes each. The upper and lower layers can be rotated. Two of the marble of the middle layer can be pushed out to the small gaps in the surrounding frame. These holes allow the remaining marbles to be moved.
There are 18 marbles. 6 marbles for each of three colours. One set of colours is blue, red and yellow although other sets are known in versions with different bodies too.
Three colours of balls must be arranged so that a single colour shows on each side of the puzzle (and the third colour is hidden within the frame).

The name of the puzzle is confusing.
At least two leaflet give the name ??????? ????, transliterated Zapolni Krug, translated "Fill the circle".
Other leaflets give the name "???????????", transliterated "Golovolomka", translated "Puzzle". That name is so generic, that the museum uses the first one for the variants for which no other package is known.
There are four other entries named ?????? transliterated Tsvetok meaning "Flower" aka "Festival flower". This makes sense, as it was used as the emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students, and the puzzle was released in 1985 to the XII festival, which took place in Moscow.
Lastly the puzzle was known under the name ??????????, transliterated Telefonchik, meaning "small phone", but only for the versions with a minimalistic frame.

This entry is about the versions with a frame made of six leaves.

The images of the pink version (image 11-12) steem from a perfect copy made by Anthony Greenhill in 2005. As can be seen from the images here there are many versions with different body colours.

The original price given here is based on the official exchange rate (0.6 roubles per dollar) although in socialist time this was completely theoretical. The price (in roubles) is printed on the package.

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