The Soviet Union was more of an empire than a country. Thus we have generally archived Soviet school images under the constinuent republic that became independent countries when the Soviet Union imploded (1992). We have acquired Soviet images that are not identified. So we don't know where to archive them other than the Soviet Union. Of course Russians were a major part of the Soviet population. This is a difficult problem because as the Soviet Union begam to mandate uniforms for school uniforms, they did not have different uniforms for the various republics. Children all over the Soviet Union wore the same basic style although styles changed over time. There were styles for both boys and girls. There are a few clues as to where the uniforms were from. We see brown suits and dresses in Ukraine rather than the standard navy blue. Of course that does not show up in the photographic record until the 1980s when we begin to see color photography. We see some Soviet school children wearing folk outfits to school. We are not sure how common this was. Based on prevalence in the photographic record, they do not seem very common. We suspect that they were worn on special occaasions or school events of some kind. An when we see an enyire class dressed up in folk outfits, we wonder if the school did not provide the outfits. Folk costuming and dance was a rare instabce in which the Soviets permitted ethnic expression. Our most detailed information on Sovier\t schools comes grom the Soviet era in our Russian school section.
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