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1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4:
The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.
1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, P. S. King & Son, page 221:
In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”1 which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶ ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”
1 An inferior species of herring.
1989, Mary McAuley, “Bread without the Bourgeoisie”, in Diane Koenker et al., editors, Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 167:
For most it was bread and vobla, an awful salt-fish, nicknamed “Soviet ham,” whose bones would splinter and damage the intestines. […] But in the spring of 1921, […] the average employee was back to a half pound of bread, one pound of cereal, and two pounds of vobla.
Usage notes
This word is frequently italicized or otherwise treated as foreign.
