SSSR na Strojke

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http://www.schicklerart.com/auto_exh/USSR%20in%20Construction?id=8988027&from=1

anyone heard of this?

Rodchenko's masterpiece of design on parachutism. —wow.

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I like the prints.

I've read that parachutes were popular in Russia during the 1930s.

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By 1933, the clubs were so numerous that they were incorporated into a central umbrella organization known as "Osoaviakhim," or the Society for the Promotion of Aviation and Chemical Defense. This organization seems to have been something like a cross between an athletic club and civil defense corps ... In the course of their training, the groups specialized in parachuting from gliders, airplanes, and balloons.

The clubs were popular throughout the 1930s. Chapters were formed in crowded cities and in remote villages. It was not unusual for high-school-age students to be proficient parachutists. Jump towers- some of them modernistic steel derricks with spiral ramps and staircases, others no more than wooden frames- sprang up in parks and playgrounds. Smaller platforms with cable-assisted harnesses allowed young children to experince the sensation.

-from The Pre-Astronauts Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space by Craig Ryan

The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, was a recreational jumper at a "air sports" club.

"And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction" Survivor Chuck Palahniuk

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more on skydiving in the 1930s from a cool article about the history of smokejumping in Russia.

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The rise of smokejumping in the Soviet Union must be considered in the context of an explosive growth of interest in aviation there in the thirties. The USSR had its own counterparts to U.S. aviation heroes such as Lindbergh, and a raft of young adventurers aspired to conquer the sky. With an eye to national defense and to fuel patriotism, Stalin encouraged wide participation in the single-minded goal of pursuing ever more daring aviation records. In April 1935, the government decreed mandatory jump and aviation training for both sexes from ages 16 to 24 among the nearly 5 million members of the Komsomol, the Communist youth organization. The New York Times reported the program included “at least one jump from a parachute tower during 1935.” These towers, from which a captive parachute descends at reduced speed, began to sprout like mushrooms across the country.

Since the early thirties, thousands of young men and women had been taking advantage of government-sponsored skydiving, and some were soon setting records for altitude and delayed openings. On September 22, 1935, The New York Times reported: “An outstanding performance is that recently established by Anna Shishmareva and Galina Pyasetskaya, students at the Moscow Physical Culture Institute, who jumped without oxygen apparatus from a height of 26,200 feet...Other records that belong to the Soviet Union are Batitski’s leap from 24,500 feet at night, the delayed opening at night of M.G. Zobelin, director of the all-union parachute meet, from 11,880 feet, and [Nicolai] Yevdokimov’s daylight delayed opening from 26,300 feet.”

"And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction" Survivor Chuck Palahniuk

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more on skydiving in the 1930s from a cool article about the history of smokejumping in Russia.

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The rise of smokejumping in the Soviet Union must be considered in the context of an explosive growth of interest in aviation there in the thirties. The USSR had its own counterparts to U.S. aviation heroes such as Lindbergh, and a raft of young adventurers aspired to conquer the sky. With an eye to national defense and to fuel patriotism, Stalin encouraged wide participation in the single-minded goal of pursuing ever more daring aviation records. In April 1935, the government decreed mandatory jump and aviation training for both sexes from ages 16 to 24 among the nearly 5 million members of the Komsomol, the Communist youth organization. The New York Times reported the program included “at least one jump from a parachute tower during 1935.” These towers, from which a captive parachute descends at reduced speed, began to sprout like mushrooms across the country.

Since the early thirties, thousands of young men and women had been taking advantage of government-sponsored skydiving, and some were soon setting records for altitude and delayed openings. On September 22, 1935, The New York Times reported: “An outstanding performance is that recently established by Anna Shishmareva and Galina Pyasetskaya, students at the Moscow Physical Culture Institute, who jumped without oxygen apparatus from a height of 26,200 feet...Other records that belong to the Soviet Union are Batitski’s leap from 24,500 feet at night, the delayed opening at night of M.G. Zobelin, director of the all-union parachute meet, from 11,880 feet, and [Nicolai] Yevdokimov’s daylight delayed opening from 26,300 feet.”

I'd love to get a copy of that, I love the design.