Ugar NEP

Says a blogger from New York aka samsebeskazal: “I found one interesting selection of photos in the American archive. All photos were taken by Frank Vetter, an American specialist seconded to the Soviet Union in 1930. Some of the pictures were taken in Kazan, some in Moscow, and the rest in places that are probably impossible to identify. I watched, watched and think that they resemble me like this. Then he realized. Yes, they are just a live illustration of the works of Ilf and Petrov “12 chairs” and “Golden calf”. While watching, it even begins to seem that you recognize the familiar places from books. ”

1. Soviet citizens are carefully looking at a visiting American photographer at an institution under the sign "CentroSPIRTlavka."

2. Actually it all started with this photo. In the county town of N there were so many hairdressing establishments and funeral procession bureaus that it seemed that city dwellers were born only to shave, cut their hair, refresh their heads with the beverage and die immediately.

3. It was the sweetest of streets found in county towns. On the left hand behind the wavy greenish glasses the coffins of the funeral home "Nymph" silvered. On the right, behind the small, with windows that had collapsed with putty, there were sullenly lying oak dusty and dull coffins of the coffins of the master Bezenchuk.

4. Apparently that is how the “sweetest of the streets” looked.

5. Residence permit for foreigners and seasonal (what is this?) Card addressed to Frank Fetter.

6. Street trade kvass.

7. Women at the samovar.

8. Foreigners.

9. 30 girls.

10. Pellet dealers in the market.

11. Key sellers in the market.

12. Sulfur and mineral baths.

13. The queue to the institution under the sign "Centrospirt Shop"

14. The book is a powerful tool for the initiation of the masses.

15. Stand in the library. "It is not allowed to take newspapers and magazines to the cottage."

16. Train with one car.

17. The queue to the stall.

18. A man (with 8-th photo) with a car Ford A.

19. Bus refueling in Moscow.

20. Strengthen the defense of the USSR. In the all-Union lottery OSOAVIAHIMA played round the world travel.

21 Yesterday, Sverdlov Square fell under the horse carrier e8974 c. O. Bender. The victim got off easy.

22. Shoe cleaners.

23. Dining-diner.

24. Moscow street.

25. Boarding the bus opposite the Bolshoi Theater.

26. Luggage seller.

27. Larek K.TS.R.K.

28. Private grain trade M. Timofeev.

29. CentroSPIRTlavka.

30. Build a cultural collective poultry.

31. Market.

32. Long live the 10 anniversary of the Soviet Tatarstan.

33. "To the listener of the military department of the Kazan Veterinary Institute".

34. All in Avtodor! - he hastily said, looking at Ostap, who had caught up with him. - Let's start mass production of Soviet cars! The iron horse is replacing the peasant horse!

35. On the market.

36. Delivery of bread in a working cooperative.

37. Barbershop.

38 - Bender! He walks along the road. Goose! This wonderful bird walks, and I stand and pretend that it does not concern me. He fits. Now he will hiss. These birds think that they are the strongest of all, and this is their weak side. Bender! This is their weak side! ..

39. Long live the Leninist unity of the Communist International.

40. Collective farmers at lunch.

41. Comrade communard! Be polite in the dining room, it is arranged for you and in your interests.

42. The queue at the tobacco shop under the lottery advertising.

43. On the market.

44. On the river.

45. Steam tractor.

46. 10 years AGSSR.

47. Chinese street vendor.

48. Vendor seller and records in the market.

49. Not peace, but the sword is brought to capitalism by the international revolutionary professional movement.

50. Camel.

51.

Comments

[omsbon]

It was awesome!

[Roman A]

Cool, thanks

[8 company]

Interesting foty. Indeed, the world of the heroes of Ilf-Petrov is recognized.

[FunkschNNX]

"50. Camel." can not be

The streets of 30s megalopolises look more pleasant in comparison with modern ones, it’s calmer or something, and people are more natural, even there is no fuss in the market.

[illarion]

But the kids are barefoot

[borisst64]

It is unclear what has to do with "NEP Frenzy". The NEPman of that time can be compared with the modern concept of "new Russian".

[Flooding]

28. I would enjoy a meal with citizen Timofeeva. This is not a factory surrogate for you.
47. It brought the poor fellow far away. The Chinese season will begin only in 60 years.

[The centurion]

Quote: Flood

47. It brought the poor fellow far away. The Chinese season will begin only in 60 years.

Naive Vasya. It never ended. In almost any Russian city there is an area called China Town, and the name is long-standing. So not the first time, we can handle it, or rather we assimilate it. But from Romania this may not understand.

[Flooding]

Quote: Centurion

Naive Vasya. It never ended. In almost any Russian city there is an area called China Town, and the name is long-standing. So not the first time, we can handle it, or rather we assimilate it. But from Romania this may not understand.

Centurion, go bakery factory brew of concentrates, soothing nerves.
Tired of already gorlovany, in which the mouth flutters by itself at the sight of the flag of Moldova. And it was not unaware of these fake centurions and the sub-jaundin that Ukrainians and Russians also live in Moldova.

And for the overall development, I understand that reading the lack of time, you wave the saber all day long:

It is not known exactly where the name Kitay-Gorod came from. The fact that it has nothing to do with China is evidenced by the fact that at that time in Russian the word China was used to denote China. There is a possibility that the name of this district of Moscow takes its roots from the word "whale" - a fence, knitting of poles for a fence. Well, the last version - the name of Kitay-gorod comes from the name of the town of Kitaygorod, where Elena Glinskaya grew up, under which, in fact, the Kitay-gorod wall was built.

Here is one explanation for its origin. In the 1530s, the fortress was built by the Italian Petrok Maly, he called his object in Italian - citta, that is, "city". His Russian assistants could pronounce the Italian "chitta" - "city" - like Kitai-Gorod.

[zementiy]

you are completely right

[darkman70]

1). The name, "Kitay-Gorod" has nothing to do with the Chinese.
2). The Chinese were not assimilated, but sent all from the USSR for banditry, racket of small peoples of the Far East and poaching.
3) Novodlom’s flag is not Romania, but Moldova.

[Marek Rozny]

"China" in Turkic languages ​​literally means "fenced off", "what is behind the wall". in Russia, Chinese cities were called the place outside the fortress walls.
by the way, that's why Russians and Turks call the country of the Han Chinese - China, not Zhongguo, Hina or China.

[AK-47]

Quote: Flood

With pleasure I would eat the bread of citizen Timofeeva.

This, but as much as you like.

[Zynaps]

buy a good bread machine home and the factory surrogate will be forgotten like a dream, like morning fog.

[willi]

Still, Americans are Americans: since Russia means, first of all, long lines to alcohol shops ...
In general, the selection is very interesting

[Zynaps]

well, in America itself at the same time the situation was, to put it mildly, no better. Yushchenko's propagandists were caught in a famine lie, when the SBU, under the leadership of his sidekick, hastily began to bake incriminating "documents" (including photos), which, in particular, showed the exhausted American families of farmers driven from the land by banks during the Great Depression ...

[Tartary]

Quote: Centurion

Naive Vasya. It never ended. In almost any Russian city there is an area called China Town, and the name is long-standing. So not the first time, we can handle it, or rather we assimilate it. But from Romania this may not understand.

The name of Kitay Gorod has nothing to do with the Chinese at all ...

Origin of the name
The exact origin of the name has not yet been established. According to the most common version, the name of the area comes from the old word “whale,” that is, the mating of poles that were used to build the fortifications [2]. Today it is no longer used in its original meaning, but until the 3th century this word was common in Russian. According to the "Dictionary of the Russian language of the XI – XVII centuries.", The word "whale" means something wicker, connected in a bundle, in a braid [XNUMX]

There is another version that kita came from the word sitta, completely cittadelle (Italian) - the citadel, fortification, because the Italian Petrok Malaya was engaged in the construction of the wall.
Отсюда -- http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%E8%F2%E0%E9-%E3%EE%F0%EE%E4

[Marek Rozny]

The photographs of Tatarstan show that the Tatars calmly perceived at the same time both Arabica, and Latin and Cyrillic.

[merkel1961]

And our Voronezh "Bird Market" is exactly a copy of market photos, just a little modernized! There are fewer children, they trade from the ground and in tents.

[darks-7]

Hello

[Eldar]

I don’t understand what is wrong with a Chinese woman? as if the foot was twisted ...

[El13]

She leaned on a thick low pillar and was unnaturally able to put her foot so that the foot rested, the identity did not immediately understand.

[AK-47]

Quote: Eldar

I don’t understand what is wrong with a Chinese woman? as if the foot was twisted.

Quote: El13

Leaned on a thick low pillar and leg unnatural ...

Where is the pillar in the middle of the road, this is most likely a one-legged stool, although other options are possible, something incomprehensible sticks out behind her right shoulder.

[El13]

Valery Vasilyevich, well, look at "near the front leg" of the second girl captured in the photograph - also a pillar in the middle of the road, though lower.

[AK-47]

Quote: El13

She leaned on a thick low pillar and was unnaturally able to put her foot

Considered on a large scale, I admit, a column or stand.

[Joonkey]

Pleased! Good selection

[Karlsonn]

interesting selection


NEP is back

[El13]

Thank you for photos. You compare everyday life and everyday life now and understand that it is pointless to pursue material wealth, because even the kings did not have ordinary inhabitants now ... And we all look at the rich and think how poor we are
What struck me was the lines, there weren’t even such ones in the 80s.

[Karlsonn]

Quote: El13

What struck me was the lines, even in 80's there weren’t such

so Civil just ended.

[Zynaps]

according to some photos, the approximate year is 1927. well, there’s the X anniversary of Soviet organizations, that’s sho. so that Civil was over, the NEP was, and commodity hunger did not go away with it.

author of photographs of rights with captions from the novel "12 chairs". the same year is described. "The Golden Calf" is already 1930.

[Mikhail3]

How few people are on the streets! Oh, and then we got the Civil ... And as for alcohol - wasn’t it a prohibition in the USA then? I guess envied And so - a good selection. Pay attention - you will not confuse our person with anyone. Here are non-stop photos from antiquity, and they are not the same faces?

[Fedor]

Seasonal, this is most likely a seasonal ticket, or a set of them. One can only guess where?

[scorpido]

Every time with pleasure I look at photos of old and old times, this is something, something that we have already lost and will never return. Strange, but you look at the photo and literally absorb the atmosphere, you feel it, it’s native ..

[avreli]

I looked at the photo, read the comments.
Which impressed, almost more than the photo.
And somehow I was not going to write, but I filled the post above, as they say.
1. You are all (well, most certainly) very good people. I define it as it is, without subtext. You are able to see the beautiful even in the presented.
2. The one shown in the photo is n * c. Dirt and poverty are demon-pro-light.
There, a third of the public are just barefoot.
And someone wanted a makeshift bread. Well done. With that unsanitary condition.
Although, if the collective farmers' meal reflects everyday reality, they have more than enough health, not a match for the present.
IMHO. We got out of hell. Stalin, collective folk art ... is not important. Get out - as a fact. We got out and stood on a par with the advanced nations.
By the way, after the Patriotic War, everything was rebuilt in ten years. In the photo, ten years have passed, and the whole "country that they lost."
Such photos should be more often shown to “hamsters” and figures of Russian culture so that they do not talk nonsense and do not call “back to the future”.

[Sars]

That the title of the article, that the work of "Ilf" and "Petrov" - lampoons on Russians (including Tatars and other residents of the country).

[Rambiaka]

Analyzing the selection, you come to the conclusion that the real goal of the photographer was to declassify the entire CentroSPIRTlavok network.

[El13]

I envied stsuko
Forgive me, photographer, for literary circulation

[ken]

Then many described it, not only Ilf Petrov, Bulgakov Tolstoy Alexey, very many. But NEP is not enough in the photo, these are probably later photographs or they chose what to photograph. The market at least differently in NEP should look and people should be worse dressed, even queues in shops, for tobacco, then as in some late eighties all tobacco would be taken by speculators and pushed at "market prices". The NEP had already been phased out, the queue for alcohol, and the dry law was canceled in 25, when it was already living out its last days.

[Forest]

In the photo there are lines near the alcohol shops, but there are NO drunken people.
And now there are no queues at the "alcohol shop" and there are many drunks.
Which is worse?
Thanks for the photo !!!!!

[tomaz99]

grace.

[dualnik]

The selection is good .. Thank you!