This article can obviously use expansion, but it is just as important as many of the other cocktail and alcoholic beverage articles. Granted it results in a mere 37,000 search hits (not all of them about this drink), although the spelling is sometimes different—this is a result largely of the English bias. I do not know how to spell this in Cyrillic, but yorsh is very important in Russia and Russian-influenced areas. Probably the #1 "mixed drink."
In Russia, mixing vodka with anything else is considered a waste, unless the mixer is beer, which produces a fearsome beverage known as yorsh.New York Times
In order to spare the trouble of carrying two bottles, dedicated drinkers can prepare a fatal formula by mixing vodka and beer in those infamous 2.5 liter bottles of brewski. This acquired-taste mix is called yorsh and has been known to send 250 pound soldiers into a deep coma. AskMen.com
English-teaching expat's story of a yorsh-induced coma.
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