Figure 1.-- Here is a school photo made in 1976 during Soviet times (figure 1). The boys are first-grade pupil. Note the small red stars that some of the boys are wearing. This is pin for the "Oktyabryonok" youth group. Here the older students are all girls. I'm not sure if thst was common. Note that the girls are not wearing their school uniforms, but have big decorative bows. Note that the bows are similar if not identical. We suspect that they were provided the girls just for the ceremony, although we are not entirely sure why.

Another special day was "Poslednij zvonok"--The Last Ringing which is usually selebrated May 25. This refers to the the Last Ringing of the school bell. The 10th Grade graduate and the school year ends by a first grader ringing a bell. (Note, that in 70s or 80s the last grade was 10th, but nowdays final grade in Russian schools is the 11th.) The Last Ringing is the at its end the academic year. In the ceremony there is singing, dancing, peotry readings to celebrate the school year. As a part of this celebration, secondary students in the 10th grade met with 1st graders and presented them gifts. A Russian reader reader writes, "I, too, had a gift that I got from a 10th-grader when I was in the first grade. It was a book of fairy-tales and there was an inscription on it alike 'To the dear first-grader form a graduate - with a wishes of successfull learning'. And when I was in 11th grade, we, too, met with first graders and presented them books - and they persented us a small bell - symbols of the celebration." We note this was a celebration during the Soviet era. We do not know when it began or if it is still practiced in Russian schools today. A reader tells us that it is. Graduation takes place. And then the holidays begin for the 1st graders. The final-graders (10th/11th graders have a month-long series of graduate examinations. Here is a school photo made in 1976 during Soviet times (figure 1). The boys are first-grade pupil. Here the older students are all girls. I'm not sure if thst was common. Perhaps the first grade girls were with the 10th grade boys. Here we are not sure. Note that the girls are not wearing their school uniforms, but have big decorative bows. Note that the bows are similar if not identical. We suspect that they were provided the girls just for the ceremony, although we are not entirely sure why. The boys wear white shirts. Note the small red stars that some of the boys are wearing. This is pin for the "Oktyabryonok" youth group. They are wearing short pants, probably blue. They also wear tan or grey long stockings.

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