How Soviet people spent their time at home (PHOTOS)

Lifestyle
RUSSIA BEYOND
This week has been declared a week off in Russia. As a way of tackling the coronavirus pandemic, the authorities urge people to self-isolate at home. This has prompted us to look back at how people in the USSR liked to spend free time at home.

We have written a lot about how Soviet people worked at factories and collective farms, attended mass demonstrations and sent rockets into space. But what did they do at home? Well, Soviet photographers also captured ordinary people's everyday home life.

1. Morning exercises 

2. Family breakfast 

3. Cleaning, usually done at weekends

4. Reading newspapers

5. Cooking 

6. Pursuing one's hobby 

7. Studying 

8. Enjoying one's favorite pastime 

9. Sowing, mending, washing, ironing…

10. Visiting or receiving guests 

11. Listening to music

12. Watching TV in the evening