What were the school supplies to the Soviet Union

• What were the school supplies to the Soviet Union

Pencils "Politsvet" metal ruler and protractor, wooden cupboards and famous pencils "Kohinoor" - let's recall than enjoyed Soviet schoolchildren to draw lessons, geometry and other subjects.

Summer is in full swing, school holidays, many have already begun, and backpacks, pencil cases and notebooks abandoned in a locker until September. But as soon as three months fly carefree relaxation and fun, the school year starts again. Go to any stationery shop - then there just is not! But remember how things were with school supplies in Soviet times? The write and draw our parents or ourselves? Today we'll take a nostalgic journey through the world of school supplies that were every child in the USSR.

Automatic pencil with replaceable leads encased, but not thin, it is now quite common. Some students even mined for their slate of chopped in half the usual pencil.

a cheap plastic pencil-holder for pens or pencils, which opened with "chpok" ringing sound.

In this wooden pencil and eraser placed with a small ruler.

Although using the cover of thin plastic (which also paste Party) could draw a straight line, if the line was not at hand.

ball pen - a "luxury", which was not every student. For it was made special short stem with a small "ears", which, if it had to be inserted into a normal pen, lengthened using an ordinary match.

Typically used non-automatic handle simpler, which also could gnaw.

Use ink no longer even in the 70s, but use the ink and ink drawing posters and other art to continue much longer. Special bulk pens that write in ink, were not at all.

Erasers were of poor quality and could leave on paper grubby stains or holes. To make a soft gum, heroine of the movie "The most charming and attractive" advised to soak it in kerosene.

Legendary pencils "Kohinoor" Czech production were valued much more than domestic, as, indeed, and all products of this manufacturer, such as erasers, which are also mentioned in the "The most charming and attractive."

Another option school "capacity" for stationery - pencil box multifunction-bandolier of oilcloth, which eventually old and cracked.

Required accessories for geometry classes, as well as the boys at recess wars.

The biggest mystery for schoolchildren - "adult" slide rule. To learn how to operate the Soviet "computer", the average seventh-grader could only guess.

Colored plastic clips were valued much more than the usual metal, although they lost in functionality. And the buttons and paper clips have been used as weapons in school disassembly.

Tactical line enjoyed great love of the Soviet school, who will be pleased to hell with the help of all sorts of shapes, emphasized the subject and predicate, and drew the braces on the mathematics lessons. And out of it make excellent "dymovuhu" - small pieces of a long line of smoldering, giving a huge amount of white acrid smoke.

Set for plotting lessons - plywood box-stand, which was attached a piece of paper with special buttons, range rulers and pencils with different degrees of hardness.

Two variants of counting "machines" - old-school wooden abacus and "Elektronika MK-33". Have a calculator was very prestigious.

A wide range of product lines. Upstairs are patterns for drawing complex geometric shapes, which very few people used it.

Such scissors with green handles are probably in every home.

Stencil - a dream student 1980s.

With the help of painted wall newspapers, classifieds and more.

Soviet junk "flash drive" - ​​Office folder, which migrated to the school of Soviet offices. smaller format folder used exclusively for the diary and notebooks.

This drawing instruments were expensive and had its weight in gold. Sold and lower quality cheaper models in plastic boxes, which were the majority of students.