Figure 1.-- The family portrait of four boys was taken in a village of Kusinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast. This is an area in southern Russia located in the Ural Mountains. The photograph is undated, but was probably taken in the late-40s or early 50s. After that it became less common to crop boy's hair like we see here. And as the Soviet economy improved after the War, it became less common to go barefoot. We do not know their names, but the two boys in the center are brothers.

The family portrait of four boys was taken in a village of Kusinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast. This is an area in southern Russia located in the Ural Mountains. The photograph is undated, but was probably taken in the late-40s or early 50s. After that it became less common to crop boy's hair like we see here. And as the Soviet economy improved after the War, it became less common to go barefoot. We do not know their names, but the two boys in the center are brothers. The other two are relatives--we assume cousins. They belong to a mining family. Notice the younger boys are weating long pants. We note middle-class boys in thr cities wearing short pnts. This was much less common in rural areas and among working-class families.

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