Modern schoolchildren can find many interesting attributes: bright backpacks, pencil cases for pens and pens, trinkets ... Previously, our mothers and fathers didn’t have this - their training equipment was limited to a certain shape, identical portfolios and even ate the same thing. From the article you will learn about the habits of Soviet schoolchildren.
10. School uniform
The shape in the children was the same. Girls wore uniform dresses with white collars and cuffs, which periodically changed as they became dirty. The dresses were brown. There was also a black apron. For the holidays, the girls put on elegant white aprons on the same dress. In a prickly dress, they wore all year round; it was sewn of coarse sheep's wool. In order to bring variety to the form of their children, grandmothers and mothers tried to sew collars from interesting fabrics. Girls pinned badges to their clothes. Girls were forbidden to walk with their hair loose, so they tied braids. The boys had white shirts and blue suits.
9. Notebooks
Everyone knows thin unpretentious notebooks of green color? Soviet children had only such. There were no drawings on them. A multiplication table was usually printed behind the notebook, sometimes the rules for schoolchildren were how to behave, and on some notebooks the lyrics were printed, for example: “Eaglet”, “Victory Day”. Ask your parents and they will tell you that their notebooks were green, pale blue, pink and yellow. One thing is surprising - for some reason the notebooks were borderless, and the children drew them on their own, of course in red pencil.
8. Ink
All Soviet children had inkwells on the desk — they dipped fountain pens in them. But even if the child was very neat, he still could not avoid the blots, which necessarily appeared in notebooks or fell on clothes. A little later, the fountain pens were changed to ink (they had pipettes on them), which leaked all the time. Ballpoint pens entered the everyday life of a student only at the end of the 70s, after the USSR Ministry of Education approved it. And only now you understand that a fountain pen is stylish and chic, and calligraphy is a whole art.
7. Blotter
Soviet children did not wait for the ink to dry - they used a special sheet with which they were blotted. By the way, such a leaf was in each notebook, and it was called - blotter. This is an incredible item that probably has gone out of use forever, like fountain pens. The leaf was lilac, blue or pink in color, and never remained blank - the children always painted on it, and not only engaged in artistic activities - these leaflets made beautiful airplanes, cheat sheets, notes, and which snowflakes turned out to be just a delight !
6. Meals in the dining room
Entering the modern dining room, you can find a wide selection of food - all kinds of broths, porridge with chicken, meatballs, a variety of pastries ... Despite the abundance of dishes, many people remember the food in the dining rooms of the USSR with nostalgia, now even open special restaurants in the "Soviet style". Chefs cooked very tasty, lunch was always complex: first, second and compote. What can not be compared with anything is fragrant shortcakes and curd juices! They were always friable and tender, and cost only 8 kopecks. In addition to cakes and juices, of course, there was another baking in the dining room, but children most often bought cakes. The queue in the buffet was huge, because all the pastries were so tasty that you lick your fingers!
5. Satchels
High school students wore briefcases, but primary school students walked around with faux leather satchels. Satchels were fastened with snap buttons, there was also a zipper. There were no problems with the knapsacks, they were very durable, only sometimes the fasteners broke. In winter, children after school rode school bags from the ice slides - lying on their stomachs or sitting, they were painted with ballpoint pens, they even fought! There was only one compartment in the satchel, which had to contain everything: notebooks, pens and books.
4. Pencils from Czechoslovakia
Nowadays, there is a huge selection of pencils: we can buy them in the store or order any on the Internet. For children of Soviet times, the choice of pencils was very limited, but they did not think about any other. But by the standards of the USSR, the best pencils are those that were brought from Czechoslovakia, they were called “Koh-i-noor”. You could get them in the department store if someone had a thieves. They were made from organic California cedar with concern for the environment. How many yellow pencils were stitched with gold letters and little pimples at their tips!
3. Book stand
Now almost no one uses the stand, and in Soviet times it stood on almost every desk. Of course, such a thing is very convenient, and suitable not only for first-graders, but also for children of higher grades. After all, a child without her would have to bend down constantly, which causes impaired posture. What could be more important than a child’s health? The stand was simply necessary, but it was so heavy ... especially for the student who was sitting in front and interfering with his classmates with conversations or something else - he got this stand on the head right with the book!
2. Slide rule and sharpener
Botanists of the USSR could not do without such a line, all mathematical calculations were carried out with its help, because there were no calculators at that time. Usually the rulers did not exceed 75 cm in length, and it showed accurate calculations. With its help it was possible to multiply, divide, subtract, add, extract the root, raise to a power, calculate the logarithms and more! It may seem complicated to us, but Soviet students could not have lived without it. There were few sharpeners at that time, and they were often with a blunt blade, so parents sharpened their children’s pencils with a razor blade.
1. Toy
In the schoolboy’s satchel, you could find a lot of things: candy wrappers from sweets, notes, and even a toy! Now the children are no longer interested in and do not carry toys with them, since sophisticated gadgets came to replace them. But before, schoolchildren could carry some kind of funny toy with them, for example, it could be a funny toad, with whom they ran for breaks and played, remaining in the extension.