School supplies for children of the USSR (18 photos). School supplies in the USSR School supplies in the USSR

Three months of carefree rest and fun have flown by, and the academic year. Go to any stationery store - there is nothing there! But remember how things were with school supplies in Soviet times? What did our parents write and draw with or ourselves? Today we will take a nostalgic journey through the world of school supplies that every child in the USSR had.

Automatic pencils with interchangeable leads, but not thin, as they are now, quite common. Some schoolchildren even got leads for them from ordinary pencils split in half.

A cheap plastic pen or pencil case that opened with ringing sound"bang".

And an eraser with a small ruler was placed in this wooden pencil case.

Although with the help of a cover made of thin plastic (which was also pasted over the desks), it was possible to draw straight lines if there was no ruler at hand.

An automatic pen is a luxury that not every student had. A special short rod with small “ears” was made for it, which, if it was necessary to insert it into an ordinary handle, was lengthened with a match.

Usually they used simpler non-automatic pens, which, moreover, could be chewed.

The use of ink ceased in the 70s, but the use of ink and ink for drawing posters and for other artistic purposes continued much longer. Not everyone had special bulk pens that wrote with ink.

The erasers were of poor quality and could leave sloppy marks or even holes on the paper. To make gum soft, the heroine of the film "The Most Charming and Attractive" advised soaking it in kerosene.

The legendary Czech-made Kohinoor pencils were valued much more than domestic ones, as, in fact, all the products of this manufacturer, such as erasers, which are also mentioned in The Most Charming and Attractive.

Another option for a school “container” for stationery is a multifunctional cartridge case made of oilcloth, which has aged and cracked over time.

A must-have for geometry lessons, as well as boyish wars at recess.

The biggest mystery for schoolchildren is the "adult" slide rule. How this Soviet "computer" functions, the average seventh grader could only guess.

Colored plastic paper clips were valued much more than ordinary metal ones, although they lost to them in terms of functionality. And also buttons and paper clips were used as ammunition in school fights.

The tactical ruler enjoyed great love among Soviet schoolchildren, who with pleasure drew all kinds of figures with it, underlined the subject and predicate, and drew curly brackets in mathematics lessons. And it also made an excellent “smoke” - small pieces of the ruler smoldered for a long time, giving out a huge amount of white caustic smoke.

A set for drawing lessons - a plywood box-stand, where a sheet of paper was attached with special buttons, an assortment of rulers and pencils with varying degrees hardness.

Two options for calculating "machines" - old-school wooden abacus and "Electronics MK-33". It was very prestigious to have such a calculator.

Wide range of lines. Above are patterns for drawing complex geometric shapes which few have used.

Such scissors with a green handle were probably in every home.

The stencil is a schoolboy's dream in the 1980s.

With it, they drew wall newspapers, ads and much more.

The Soviet waste "flash drive" is a stationery folder that migrated to school from Soviet offices. Smaller folders were used exclusively for diaries and notebooks.

Such a preparation was expensive and was worth its weight in gold. There were also lower-quality cheap models in plastic boxes that most schoolchildren had.

Notebooks with blotters.

The notebooks were simple, without drawings and inscriptions. On reverse side the rules of behavior for schoolchildren, the multiplication table, or, at worst, the words of the songs were printed: “Fly up the bonfires, blue nights”, “Victory Day”, “Eaglet”, “That birch, then mountain ash”, “Where does the Motherland begin”, “Hymn THE USSR". For some reason, the notebooks were dirty and sad colors: blue, pink, green, yellow. It is still a mystery to me why there were no fields in the notebooks in the box? They had to be drawn by ourselves, and always with a red pencil, and not with a pen.

For a while we wrote in ink: first, with fountain pens, which were dipped into non-spill inkwells (they stood on every desk, and dead midges always swam in them). No matter how neat and balanced you are, you still could not avoid blots on a desk or in a notebook. Later, nib sticks replaced the ever-leaking automatic ink pens (with pipettes and threaded ones). By the way, fountain pens could be found at the post office and in savings banks back in the late eighties, they filled out receipts and wrote texts of telegrams. The Ministry of Education of the USSR allowed the use of ballpoint pens only in the late 70s. Of course, it was a breakthrough, all the children of the vast Motherland breathed a sigh of relief. And only now you understand that an ink pen is expensive and stylish, and calligraphy is an art on which the Japanese, for example, still earn good money. In order not to wait for the ink to dry, the page was blotted with a special leaf that lay in each notebook - a blotting paper. This is an absolutely wonderful item that has gone into oblivion along with ink pens. And what a good word - a blotter. A pink, blue or lilac leaf was always scribbled and painted, and indeed it had a lot of applications: cool airplanes were made from blotting paper, because the paper was lighter, cheat sheets, and New Year's snowflakes also turned out great. And notes for girls or boys! They silently fell into the "object of sighs", in contrast to heavy paper leaves. In boys, as a rule, this leaf was quickly used, and not quite for its intended purpose: they chewed it in order to launch a ball into a neighbor (neighbor) through a tube. Unhappy modern children, why do they spit at each other?

School uniform. If you ask 40-year-old women what color they dislike the most in clothes, 90% of them will answer: "Brown". This is due to the Soviet school uniform: a creepy brown dress and a black apron. I still shudder at the memory of the touch of this prickly clothing (the dress was sewn from coarse wool) to the body. And mind you, it was worn all year round: in autumn, winter and spring. These clothes were cold in winter and hot in spring. What kind of hygiene can we talk about? I remember that at one time special inserts with cellophane were sold, which were sewn into the armpits of dresses so that white salt stains from sweat would not show through. A black apron and brown (black) bows were supposed to be worn with a brown dress - another color combination! The festive school outfit included a white apron, tights and bows.

In order to somehow diversify the boring form, mothers and grandmothers "came off" on collars and aprons: they were sewn from the finest lace, imported guipure, crocheted, invented styles of aprons with "wings", with frills, etc. Sometimes there were simply masterpieces of sewing hand-made. The girls tried to decorate school clothes as best they could: they pinned brooches, made leather appliqués, sewed in beads (however, strict teachers forced all this splendor to be removed, they also measured the length of the dress from the knee to the hem with a ruler - God forbid, a millimeter higher than it should be according to the instructions of the Ministry of Education). Some parents managed to get a "Baltic" uniform through pull, it was a pleasant chocolate color and was sewn not from wool, but from some kind of soft material. In fairness, I note that the Soviet uniform was sewn in different styles: a pleated skirt, tucks, folds, etc. were used. And all the same, we hated the uniform, since it was canceled in the mid-80s ... Although now I sometimes look at old photos and, comparing with the current school uniform, I think: maybe there was something in those dresses with aprons? Stylish and noble.

Collars had to be washed and sewn on every week. This, of course, was terribly annoying, but from the height of the present mind I understand that it was a good lesson in cleanliness for girls. How many 10-12-year-old girls can sew on a button and wash their clothes after themselves?

Cookie. But what was truly wonderful in those years was the milk biscuits in the canteen! Amber color, fragrant, crumbly! And very democratic in price - only 8 kopecks.

Yes, there were buns with marmalade, poppy seeds, cinnamon, muffins, sour cream and cheesecakes, but for some reason these shortbreads come to mind.

Backpacks. High school students flaunted with briefcases: black or red, and for students lower grades satchels were indispensable. They were made of smelly leatherette, and the fasteners in them immediately broke. But the knapsacks themselves were incredibly durable: they rode them down the ice slides, sitting or on their stomachs, they fought with them, they were thrown into a pile after lessons, when it was necessary to urgently assemble a team to play "Cossack robbers". And they are nothing, they lived and served for a whole year.

Czechoslovakian pencils. These are now simple pencils (soft and hard) you can buy in any stationery department, and then the Czechoslovakian Koh-i-noor were considered the best pencils. They were brought from abroad or got through the pull in a department store. They were made, by the way, from California cedar (at least before). How much did we grind off during our studies of these yellow sticks with golden letters and with golden pimps on the tip!

Bookend. Definitely a handy thing, but very heavy. Especially for a student sitting in front - if he spun and interfered in the lesson, he got hit on the head with a stand along with a book.

Logarithmic ruler. I personally did not know how to use this gadget, but for many "nerds" in those years it was indispensable. In Soviet times, when there were no computers yet, and the first electronic calculators were a curiosity, mathematical calculations were performed on it. The rulers were of different lengths (from 15 to 50-75 cm), the accuracy of the calculations depended on it. With the help of a ruler, it was possible to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, raising to a power and extracting a root, calculating logarithms and working with trigonometric functions. They say that the accuracy of operations could reach 4-5 decimal places! For me, all these manipulations with the ruler were a very difficult thing, but it is impossible to overestimate its role in the life of mathematics students of those years. I recently heard from a woman that her husband taught her how to use a slide rule so that she would calculate the number of loops while knitting. "For me, even today, this thing is indispensable in the preparation of various proportions," the woman is sure.

Polytsvet pencils, metal rulers and protractors, wooden pencil cases and the famous Kohinoor pencils - let's remember together what Soviet schoolchildren used in the lessons of drawing, geometry and other subjects.
Three months of carefree rest and fun have flown by, and the school year begins again. Go to any stationery store - there is nothing there! But remember how things were with school supplies in Soviet times? What did our parents write and draw with or ourselves? Today we will take a nostalgic journey through the world of school supplies that every child in the USSR had.
Automatic pencils with interchangeable leads, but not thin, as they are now, quite common. Some schoolchildren even got leads for them from ordinary pencils split in half.

A cheap plastic case for pens or pencils that opened with a ringing “bang” sound.

And an eraser with a small ruler was placed in this wooden pencil case.

Although with the help of a cover made of thin plastic (which was also pasted over the desks), it was possible to draw straight lines if there was no ruler at hand.

An automatic pen is a luxury that not every student had. A special short rod with small “ears” was made for it, which, if it was necessary to insert it into an ordinary handle, was lengthened with a match.

. Usually they used simpler non-automatic pens, which, moreover, could be chewed.

The use of ink ceased in the 70s, but the use of ink and ink for drawing posters and for other artistic purposes continued much longer. Not everyone had special bulk pens that wrote with ink.

. The erasers were of poor quality and could leave sloppy marks or even holes on the paper. To make gum soft, the heroine of the film "The Most Charming and Attractive" advised soaking it in kerosene.

The legendary Czech-made Kohinoor pencils were valued much more than domestic ones, as, in fact, all the products of this manufacturer, such as erasers, which are also mentioned in The Most Charming and Attractive.

Another option for a school “container” for stationery is a multifunctional cartridge case made of oilcloth, which has aged and cracked over time.

1. Mandatory accessories for geometry lessons, as well as boyish wars at recess.

The biggest mystery for schoolchildren is the "adult" slide rule. How this Soviet "computer" functions, the average seventh grader could only guess.

3. Colored plastic paper clips were valued much more than ordinary metal ones, although they lost to them in terms of functionality. And also buttons and paper clips were used as ammunition in school fights.

14. The tactical ruler enjoyed great love among Soviet schoolchildren, who were happy to draw all kinds of figures with it, emphasize the subject and predicate, and draw curly brackets in mathematics lessons. And it also made an excellent “smoke” - small pieces of the ruler smoldered for a long time, giving out a huge amount of white caustic smoke.

A set for drawing lessons - a plywood box-stand, where a sheet of paper was attached with special buttons, an assortment of rulers and pencils with varying degrees of hardness.

Two options for calculating "machines" - old-school wooden abacus and "Electronics MK-33". It was very prestigious to have such a calculator.

Wide range of lines. Above are patterns for drawing complex geometric shapes, which few people used.

Such scissors with a green handle were probably in every home.

The stencil is a schoolboy's dream in the 1980s.

With it, they drew wall newspapers, ads and much more.

The Soviet waste "flash drive" is a stationery folder that migrated to school from Soviet offices. Smaller folders were used exclusively for diaries and notebooks.

Such a preparation was expensive and was worth its weight in gold. There were also lower-quality cheap models in plastic boxes that most schoolchildren had.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 31
Which bottles were literally worth their weight in gold, so they were reused?
The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 32
What cereal crop was closely associated with the name of Nikita Khrushchev?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 33
With what control weights did everyone go to the market in Soviet times? The weighting percentage in those years was minimal.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 34
Legendary VCR in the USSR. Cost like spaceship, while the quality of the picture left much to be desired.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 35
The most popular player in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 36
Mugs that, with the light hand of the sculptor Vera Mukhina, ended up in every Soviet kitchen?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 37
The most popular cologne in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 38
The most popular and favorite children's magazine in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 39
October badge in the USSR.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 40
Pioneer badge in the USSR.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 41
Tooth powder, which lived in every Soviet bathroom, and due to the acute shortage of toothpaste, was in constant demand.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 42
An electronic game, the most famous and popular of the series of the first Soviet portable electronic games?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 43
The game is the ultimate dream of any Soviet boy. A terribly scarce thing, for which you had to stand in a huge queue in the "Children's World".

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 44
The most popular stationery set in the USSR.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 45
Pocket toy, which was littered with our entire "Chinese market?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 46
One of the first Soviet personal computers for household purposes. Absolutely killer machine, it was even possible to program in Assembler and Pascal.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 47
The most popular aftershave cream in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 48
The most popular cassette in the USSR. The quality of the film left much to be desired, but there was nothing else affordable at that time.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 49
The most popular rubber ball in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 50
The most popular pencil case in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 51
The most popular ice cream in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 52
The largest Soviet shopping center in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 53
The store that was considered the second most important in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 54
This store "temple" is located in one of the oldest buildings in Moscow.

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 55
The largest bookstore in the USSR, which was opened in 1967?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 56
What legendary product was conceived by Generalissimo Stalin on the eve of victory in the Great Patriotic War?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 57
What brand of beer 2.8% alcohol was the most common of the light low-alcohol drinks:

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 58
In the people they were called "mass grave". And also - "eyes".

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 59
The most popular sausage in the USSR?

The game "All about the USSR": the answer to Level 60
How many constitutions changed Soviet Union for 69 years of its existence?

Summer is in full swing school break for many, it has already begun, and backpacks, pencil cases and notebooks are thrown into a chest of drawers until September. But as soon as three months of carefree rest and fun fly by, the school year will begin again. Go to any stationery store - there is nothing there! But remember how things were with school supplies in Soviet times? What did our parents write and draw with or ourselves? Today we will take a nostalgic journey through the world of school supplies that every child in the USSR had.

Automatic pencils with interchangeable leads, but not thin, as they are now, quite common. Some schoolchildren even got leads for them from ordinary pencils split in half.

A cheap plastic case for pens or pencils that opened with a ringing “bang” sound.

And an eraser with a small ruler was placed in this wooden pencil case.

Although with the help of a cover made of thin plastic (which was also pasted over the desks), it was possible to draw straight lines if there was no ruler at hand.

An automatic pen is a “luxury” that not every student had. A special short rod with small “ears” was made for it, which, if it was necessary to insert it into an ordinary handle, was lengthened with an ordinary match.