Mark,
Yes, those are indeed street cleaners.
An interesting fact about those:
In 1980s and early 1990s, it was possible to catch a ride with them
during late night time, when the city transportation ground transport
was not running anymore; they were a somewhat cheaper alternative to
a taxi. Of course, it was unofficial, and you wouldn't get a receipt.
:-)
As for "Dogulyalsya", - for me, it is reminiscent of a widely known in
Russia painting by F.P. Reshetnikov "Again '2'" ('2' is a school mark
equivalent to a "D" (or "F") in the US):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/1/14/Opyat_dvoyka.jpg
Cheers,
Igor
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Mark C <pdml-mark at charter.net> wrote:
> Interesting collection indeed... Strokes of Childhood - are those
> street
> cleaners? Dogulyalsya is probably my favorite.
>
>
> On 4/6/2014 8:52 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
>>
>>
>> I thought some PDMLers would find it interesting:
>> I came across this set of old photographs from the Soviet Union from
>> 40s-70s.
>>
>> One photo is NSFW for some work environments.
>> ("The birth of [hu]man")
>>
>> The page with Google-Translated captions:
>> http://goo.gl/T1bvyo
>>
>> The original page is here:
>>
>> http://www.adme.ru/illustration-and-photography/40-genialnyh-sovetskih-fotografij-660805/
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Igor
>>
>> PS.
>> A few corrections for the caption translations and comments:
>>
>> 1. For the car enthusiasts:
>> New "The Cossacks." should be
>> ``New "Zaporozhets' ''
>> ("Zaporozhets" is a make of the cheapest and smallest mass-produced
>> car in the Soviet Union. It was exported to some "Eastern Bloc"
>> countries,
>> and presumably only German (GDR) Trabant was worse.
>>
>> http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658533_1658030,00.html
>>
>> 2. Last photo, the newspaper article title says
>> "Who will be the new owner of the dating service?"
>> And that's the photo caption.
>>
>> 3. The second to the last photo:
>> "Dogulyalsya" - Google failed to translate.
>> Ghm... very loosely: "finally... after playing outdoors".
>>
>> 4. In the 3rd from the beginning of the set (not counting the top
>> one),
>> the note says: "I need a ticket to Richter" (performance of Franz
>> Richter's pieces).
>>
>>
>
>
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