Soviet Young Pioneers: Seasonality


Figure 1.--The Soviet school children wear the Young Pioneer uniform, both a warm and cold weather uniform. This was the uniform style work at school and mpst camps from about 1970-90.

I'm not sure if the Young Pioneers had a special summer uniform. There were clearly uniform garments adopted to war amd cold weathr. I do not know if the school or Pioneer group insist that a seasonal uniform be worn or if it was left up to the child and parents as to ehich specific uniform garments woulkd be worn. There were clealy seasonal uniform garments. We have noted some boys wearing both short and long sleeved shirts and short and long pants. This may have been a choice up to the boy and his parents rather than a strict uniform established by the Pioneer unit. The shorts were probably the pre-packaged Pioneer camp uniforms. Shorts were very common for primary school children. Some boys even wore shorts in the winter, often with long ober the knee stockings. The shorts were also worn at summer camp. Many Soviet children went to summer camp, so many boys had them despite the fact that Russia is known for its cold weather. Thus many boys wore the Pioneer short pants uniform to school and and on special school occassions when the weather was warm.








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