1986. Mir Space Station is launched. Space Shuttle Challenger explodes. Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are born, as well as one of the London Underground suicide bombers.
Odessa, Soviet Union. Public School #39 (former Madame Balen De Balu’s Gymnasium for Girls), 3rd grade, group A poses for a picture in front of a patriotic mural depicting the fictional underage foe of burgouise, Malchish Kibalchish. Here’s a modern rendering. If I remember correctly, the remainder of the mural depicted Malchish’s main foe, Main Burjuin and his henchmen. I might be wrong about that though.
Somehow I missed school the day when the picture was taken. Of all the people in the picture, I sometimes chat on ICQ with two.
Update:
An interesting thing to notice is the color of boy’s shirts. There were two types of uniforms – one for special occasions and one for everyday use. No doubt that prior to the picture was taken everyone was told to put the special occasion uniform, which for boys means white shirts instead of blue ones, and for girls – white aprons instead of brown or black ones (like seen in this ebay auction). As you can see, all the girls are wearing white aprons, but most of the boys are wearing incorrect blue shirts.
Dunno, Kibalchish painting is pretty distinct.
Hmmm, after a while those murals pretty much seem alike. But what strikes me about these photos, besides the similiar poses and the uniforms, are the facial expressions. Maybe it’s not particular to only Russians but they seem so similiar in photos i’ve seen.
A picture of Natalie would have been nice to see. And of course Gary! Happy New Year!
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That is an interesting picture.
The year is one reason (1986 was a busy year for 19i year old me) but another is .. heck absent the uniforms that could be my third grade class at Jenks Elementary, Jenks, Oklahoma.
Almost every Soviet 20-30 year old immigrant has a picture like this, no matter which part of the country they come from. Sometime it gives me eerie feeling and not the expected comfort of belonging.
He heh, I just remembered something interesting about the uniforms. I’ll update the entry.
It’s too bad that I don’t have my old “dnevnik” collection. The pictures were taken, but so many are lost now.
I like that there is a frantic patriot, with a gun, trumpet and sword in the mural behind you.
As you can see, all the girls are wearing white aprons, but most of the boys are wearing incorrect blue shirts.
Boys will be boys. I’m lucky when I can get my youngest to wear matching socks.
“But they both have Pokemon on them.”
And so they do. Not only that, both Pokemon are ‘fire’ type: they do match. Just not ‘adult’ matching.
He’s technically correct, and that’s the best kind of correct there is (If I learned anything from Futurama).
It’s strange, but I am not receiving notifications of your replies in email. Is this your site or my email?
Man i loved those white aprons. I was too young to be a pioneer and get the red “scarf” but i was an Octebronik…It is eerie how no matter which part of USSR one was from one has the same damn photo of their class.