"Apollo-Soyuz" was a Soviet brand of cigarettes which were manufactured by the "Java Tobacco Factory" in Moscow, Soviet Union, and Philip Morris USA in the United States. Today it is owned and manufactured by the Krasnodar Tobacco Factory, a Russian subsidiary of Altria.
History
To honor the joint Soviet-American flight of the Soyuz-Apollo, a series of postage stamps and envelopes with the stamp first day covers, postcards, photo albums, as well as cigarettes under the name "Apollo-Soyuz" with the famous Virginia tobacco from the American company Philip Morris were issued to be made.
The brand was introduced for the occasion of the joint Soviet-American Apollo–Soyuz Test Project mission in July 1975.[1][2][3]
The cigarettes went on sale in the Soviet Union on July 15, 1975, the day the