Figure 1.--Some of the characters in the Soviet 1979 film "Rhe Adventures of Elektronik" wore long hair--including the boy who played Elektronik. Soviet boys even in the 1970s, however, rarely wore shoulder-length hair.
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Figure 1.--Some of the characters in the Soviet 1979 film "Rhe Adventures of Elektronik" wore long hair--including the boy who played Elektronik. Soviet boys even in the 1970s, however, rarely wore shoulder-length hair. |
We have noted some younger Russian boys with hair over their ears, even during the Sovie era. Andrea Sakarov as a boy of about 7 or 8 years wore sailor suits and long hair over his ears. I am not sure how common this was. Most boys had short hair during the Soviet era through the 1960s The Soviet Union was affected by Western fashions long before Western politcal and economic thought was successful. First it was jeans in the 1960s. Next long hair styles became popular in the 1970s. I have few details, but assume that Soviet school administrators had the same difficulty over hair length that administrators in America had in the 1960s and 70s. The boys apparently won the contest of wills and longer hair styles were actually being shown in Soviet movies by 1979--presumably meaning that longer hair was being accepted in the schools. Soviet boys even in the 1970s, however, rarely wore shoulder-length hair. We have few details, but extremely long hair was not tolerated by school authorities.
A Russian reader tells us, "After the Beatles, Rolling Stones etc. - i.e. during the late 1960s up to
the late 1980s it was permanently continuing, sometimes drastic, struggle between teachers/parents and youths on the hair length permitted at school. The result eventually coming out was the "moderately long hair", exactly as you see in the image here from a Russian television program ("The Adventures of Elektronik"). On the photographs taken at Pioneer camps, particularly of V. Loktev's Ensemble, the hair of boys you see is NOT VERY TYPICAL of the period because of specific conditions and discipline of the Ensemble, as well as of the camps. The hair you see on the shots was, so to speak, "the ideal hairdressing of good boys" as approved by Soviet officials--not by the boys themselves who usually desired to cut hair longer at that period.
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