You can find similar breads even further east, where the word ''"obwarzanek"'' has evolved into ''"baranka"''. Apart from ''baranki'', the East Slavs (Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians) also bake the slightly larger ''bubliki'' and the slightly smaller ''sushki''. The ''bubliki'' have made a particularly interesting career not only in the culinary realm, but also in song and literature. Mostly as a symbol of poverty; bakers may have been relatively well off, but the peddlars who distributed the ''bubliki'' earned next to nothing. The only thing worth less than a ''bublik'' was the ''bublik'' hole.
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[[File:Bublik baranka sushka.png|thumb|upright|From left: a ''bublik'', a ''baranka'' and a ''suszkasushka'']]
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