Figure 1.--The text here identifies the group. We at first thought it was not a class but some other group at school No. 15 in a Russian city. We did not at first think it was a class because almost all of the students are girls. Most Soviet schools were coed. The girls wear dark dresses with pinafores, a kind of Soviet school uniform. A virtually all girls class with one boy would be highly unusual. The five teachers also suggest that it is not a class. We are guessing the text indicates the city and explains that it was the third 7th year class. The portrait is undated, but we would guess it was taken in the mid-1950s. Notice that half the group, including the boy, are not wearing their red scarves. We are not sure what that means if anbything.

We are not sure just what the regulations were for school uniformns. We think that Moscow authorities promoted the use of school uniforms and set guidelines, but it was up to the local school to actually adopt a specific uniform and enforce its usage. As a result we see differences in the unifirms actually worn. Schools in the larger city seem the most likely to adopt unifiorms. And many of the images we have fojund are after Workd war II as the Siviet Union began tio reciover from Wotld War II. Many of the images we have found do not show the children wearing school uniforms. We think this was primarily an econmic issues patterns did not have the money to buy uniforms. We are aso not sure about their availability. We have no actual information on this, only the photograophic recird to go on. We are just bginning this assessment. And the great majority of images we have found do not show the children wearing school uniforms. Most of the images we have found with uniforms so far come from the 1950s at the end of the Stalinist era.

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