Tiny Bunny Dictionary

Extended description of the "dictionary" from the game

Babai

Babai is an imaginary night spirit. According to folk beliefs, this creature lived in the reeds, bushes in the vegetable garden or in the forest. It is believed that the word "Babai" is of Turkic origin and means "father, old man. The word meant something mysterious and uncertain, frightening and dangerous. Babai is usually represented as a small old man with a long beard and a bag behind his back. In that bag he supposedly takes naughty children. Often Babai did not have a specific description, and then children imagined his image themselves.

UAZ

UAZ-469 and UAZ-3151 are Soviet and Russian cargo-and-passenger vehicles of increased cross-country ability (off-road vehicles), produced by the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant.

UAZ-469 was designed to transport people, cargo and light trailers on all types of roads. Development of the car began in the 1950s, and in 1958 the first prototype was built under the name UAZ-460. The car looks like an American Jeep - a sturdy utilitarian off-road vehicle, but not very comfortable.

Black kitten

A series of contemporary Russian and translated detective novels for teenagers, which marked the beginning of another sub-series, "Black Cat". It includes both stand-alone novels and novellas that make up cycles of varying lengths. Some works have been previously published in other children's and family series, some for the first time.

Accountant

"Accountant" is a song by the band Kombinatsiya, released on their album Moscow Propiska (1991). The original version was recorded by a duet of Alyona Apina and Tatiana Ivanova. The composition is stylized as a chanson and tells a poignant story about a little man - a simple accountant. The narrative musical video for the song, filmed in the manner of a short film, received at the end of 1991 the "Ovation" award in the category "Best Video".

Dumplings

Dumplings - a traditional Russian dish in the form of thermally
unleavened dough stuffed with chopped
Meat or fish, which has its origin in the Urals and Siberia.

Dumplings are a kind of flour product
with different fillings - meat, mushrooms, potatoes,
cabbage, berries, etc.

Streets of Broken Lanterns

Streets of Broken Lanterns is a Russian detective television series that aired on television from 1998 to 2019, including 16 seasons. The first (pilot) episodes were filmed in 1995. It is based on the works of writer Andrei Kivinov. The series has 16 seasons. It told about the everyday life of police officers, later the police. Each series is a separate detective investigation. This was the first Russian TV series shown on TNT. It was the longest (in terms of time on the air, but not in terms of the number of episodes) series in the history of Russian television.

In 1999, the leadership of the police department of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region awarded the cast of the detective series statuettes "For valor and creation of the positive image of the policeman in the performance of official duty.

Pioneer movement

The pioneer movement was an organization for children run by the Communist Party. Children usually joined the organization in elementary school and continued there through their teens. Then teenagers usually joined the Komsomol Youth Union. Until the 1990s, there was extensive cooperation between pioneer and similar movements from some 30 countries, coordinated by the International Committee of Child and Adolescent Movements, founded in 1958 and headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.

Field of Wonder

The capital show "Field of Miracles" is a Russian unofficial adaptation of the popular American game show "Wheel of Fortune," which has notable differences from the original. According to its creators, the television company, the owner of the original format was not interested in cooperating with VID in 1990, and in addition to actually "Wheel of Fortune", elements of formats of other American games ("The Price is Right", "Take Your Pick", etc.) were used in the script of "Wonderland Field".

"Field of Miracles" debuted in 1990 with Vlad Listyev as host. A year later, due to being busy with other TV projects, Vlad passed the anchor spot to Leonid Yakubovich, who holds it to this day (for 30 years already).

On November 30, 2021, it was announced that the contract between Channel One and the production company was being terminated due to the "inexpediency of concluding a new contract on the changed conditions offered to the channel. Instead, the channel bought the rights to produce a TV game based on the original format of "Wheel of Fortune. At first it was planned that the game would change its name to "Our Field of Miracles", but later it was decided to leave it as it was.

Catching up

Catch-up - a children's movement game, according to the rules of which the leader "spotty" tries to catch up with one of the fleeing partners and touch him with his hand (in another version of the game - hit him with a ball), after which the latter turns into the leader.

Aksyutka ran very well; he was a master of catch-up and was able to dodge in a small space, making unexpected turns in one direction or the other.

The game has several variants.

According to the first variant, the one whose hand is touched
becomes a "salsochka", and he, on the contrary, becomes a simple player.
The second variant assumes that the one who is touched by the leader joins him and catches the others together with him. Having caught the third one, it is necessary to catch the fourth and fifth one, etc.
Players may also stipulate one or more additional rules in advance:
1 the leader has no right to touch with his hand the person who has previously besieged him;
2 Touching the arm, leg or head does not count;
3 the fleeing player may stand on a stump or any other place above (below) the ground and thereby gain temporary immunity.

Depending on the conditions, the game may never end. Players can swap roles an infinite number of times and continue to play. Therefore it is possible to initially agree on a time limit, after which it is counted who was the leader how many times. Whoever has a smaller number wins.

A present from the bunny

A gift from a bunny is a very old saying or expression. It was used by our great-great-great-grandparents, and its origin is purely peasant. When parents went to work in the fields in summer, they left their small children in the care of their elders or grandparents. On their return from the plowing or harvesting in the evening, parents would bring their children simple presents - berries, flowers, funny twigs or stones, and say that these were gifts that the bunny had sent to their favorite child for his good behavior.
The bunny is a frequent character in fairy tales, known for his gentle nature and kindness, so it is not surprising that children, who were also called bunnies, were given gifts by the same bunny.

Stall

A kiosk or stall is a small structure, about 3 meters by 3 meters, with a transparent window or window. Inside the kiosk there is usually one salesperson. The goods traded are consumer goods: newspapers, magazines, soft drinks, costume jewellery, souvenirs.
Stalls and kiosks in the classic form are still common. Usually put in crowded places, most often at public transport stops, markets and the like.
Stalls were especially widespread in Russia in the 1990s, the era of private enterprise. Then there were numerous stalls selling all kinds of goods: cosmetics, fast food, CDs/DVDs, cell phones, newspapers, souvenirs and so on. Among them were many illegal stalls whose owners did not pay taxes and the goods sold in them were counterfeit (mostly pirated DVDs and counterfeit watches, cell phones, clothing, and alcoholic beverages).

In the early 1990s, quite a few kiosks based on automobile bodies or trailers began to appear in Russia and the CIS. Their sizes varied from 1×1,5 m to 2,5×10 m. They were produced by many companies from the respectable "Tonar" (the name "tonar" has become a nickname for such mobile kiosks) to various "garage fellows".

Since 2016, their number began to fall, due to changes in trade legislation (then the capital authorities began a massive struggle with kiosks). At the end of 2018, the government submitted a bill to the State Duma on the revival of "small forms" of retail outlets - stalls, tents, car kiosks, kiosks, etc. In 2017-2019, the number of kiosks in Russia increased by 27%.

Playing for liners

The liner game was a children's game of the '80s and '90s.
In the 1980s, foreign chewing gum began to appear en masse in the Soviet Union and quickly became a kind of "cult" product. No, it wasn't new to Soviet kids. In the 1980s, kids were already collecting chewing gum to their hearts' content. Some were brought by parents from business trips, some were exchanged for other insert cards, etc.

There were usually two participants. They sat opposite each other, and it did not matter where. It could have been a table, a school window sill, or a porch. As long as the surface was smooth and without flaws. A smoothed out liner was placed between the participants. The palm of your hand was folded "boat-shaped" and at full speed hitting the dome from above so that it flew above the surface, and, falling, turned over with the picture upward. If the opponent's earmold fell downward, the new trophy went to you.

Kompot

Kompot is a non-alcoholic sweet drink that can be served hot or cold, depending on tradition and season. It is made by boiling fruits such as strawberries, apricots, peaches, apples, raspberries, rhubarb, plums, or cherries in a large volume of water, often together with sugar or raisins as additional sweeteners. Sometimes various spices such as vanilla or cinnamon are added for extra flavor, especially in winter when the compote is usually served hot. The compote is popular in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Southern Europe.

Victor Tsoi

Victor Robertovich Tsoi is a legendary Soviet rock musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter, founder and soloist of the cult band Kino. Victor Tsoi also became famous for his work in films, having played in the famous films of the perestroika era: "Assa" and "Needle".

In the late 1970s, Victor met Alexei Rybin, who played in the amateur band Pilgrims. They started hanging out a lot and started playing together with Mike Naumenko (Zoo) and Andrey Panov, nicknamed "Pig. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, Svin was considered "the main punk of Leningrad," and the new punk band Automated Satisfiers, which included Viktor Tsoi and Alexei Rybin, began rehearsing at his apartment. Thanks to numerous flatshows, the band became known outside Leningrad and regularly went to Moscow for Artemy Troitsky's flatshows.

They started working on their debut album under the guidance of Boris Grebenshchikov, who predicted Tsoi's fame. The band frequently played together with "Aquarium", the forced pause happened only when Victor Tsoi went to a psychiatric clinic to get out of the army. The experience became the basis for the song "Tranquilizer".

The middle of the 80s marked a period of triumph for Kino: the compositions "Saw the Night" and "Mama - Anarchy" were released, the group starred in the short film "The End of the Vacation". At the same time, the lead singer of the sensational group worked in a bathhouse on Veterans Avenue, where he cleaned rooms and later worked as a stoker. Not surprisingly, when asked if he felt like a Leningrad rock star, Viktor told the audience after the concert that it was not easy when you work in a boiler room.

In 1987 the album "Group of Blood" was released, and the band was widely acclaimed and really famous. On the wave of popularity, after playing a famous joint concert with "Aquarium" and "Alice" in Moscow DK MIIT, Kino musicians went on a triumphant tour through the cities of Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine. At the end of 1988 the album "Star by the Name of the Sun" was recorded, and in 1989 the group got a new producer - Yuri Aizenshpis.

The album "The Last Hero" was recorded in 1989 already in France. On June 24, 1990 Viktor Tsoi and Kino rock-group gave their last concert in "Luzhniki" stadium in Moscow, where in honor of this event for the first time after the Olympics-80 the Olympic flame was lit. After that Tsoi and Kasparian closed themselves off at their summer cottage near Jurmala and started working on their last new album. It was released after Victor Tsoi's death and was unofficially called "The Black Album".

Death of a legend
Victor Tsoi died on August 15, 1990. His life was cut short in a car accident that happened on the highway between Sloka and Talsi, near the Latvian town of Tukums. He was on vacation in the Baltics and was returning home. His car rammed an Ikarus bus. The bus driver survived, but Victor Tsoi died on the spot. The investigation concluded that the singer fell asleep at the wheel.

At one time, it was said that he was not asleep, but simply leaned over to change the tape in the radio and missed the turn, but there is no confirmation of this version.

The country was in for a real shock after the news. He was buried on August 19, 1990 at Boguslavsky cemetery in St. Petersburg. Thousands of fans came to see their idol off.

The memory of Tsoi is immortalized in numerous monuments, not only at home, but also abroad. The most important of all the sculptures is on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg. There the great "singer of change" is depicted sitting on a motorcycle.

In the place where the fatal accident took place, there is also a monument, the height of which is impressive - 2m 30 cm. There the singer is standing in his favorite pose, with his arms crossed.

According to the idea of sculptor Amiran Khabelashvili and artist Ruslan Vereshchagin, the authors of the monument, the lines from the composition "Legend" are on it: "Death is worth living, and love is worth waiting for...".

Sergey Suponev

Sergey Yevgenyevich Suponev is a well-known Soviet and Russian television journalist and anchor, a charming and charismatic personality. He served as editor-in-chief of children's programs on central television. After Suponev's untimely passing, many of his projects closed, and there was no anchor who could replace Sergey Evgenievich.

The young professional was engaged in the preparation of stories for the program "Under 16 and Over". After that, he was assigned to the position of associate editor of the program. The project dealt with burning issues facing the youth, much was said about street children, drug addicts, relationships in the army, relations between the sexes.

At the beginning of 1988 the TV-audience saw a new program - "Marathon 15". Its author and host was Suponev, and co-hosts were Lesya Basheva and Georgy Galustyan. Sergei Bodrov Jr., a budding journalist and filmmaker, was also involved in the new project.

Five years later, Vlad Listyev invited Suponev to work in the children's project "Star Hour". In 1994, Sergey became the founder of his own TV company "Class!", which produced programs for children and youth audiences. There were many projects that received great popularity - "Early in the Morning," "Umniki i Umnitsy," "While Everyone's Home," and "Good Night, Kids!"

During the same period of time, Sergei was the host of the project "Call of the Jungle." The journalist saw the idea of this program in his dreams. He knew how to interact well with children, so the new project became very popular and successful. For the project "Call of the Jungle" its creator was awarded the prize "TEFI".

Projects of the journalist enjoyed unprecedented popularity among children and youth. Many children passionately dreamed of becoming participants in his programs. Julia Akhmedova, the future star of channel TNT, was once the participant Suponev project "Star Hour". In memory of this event, the actress was left with a diploma and a cup.

Death of a star presenter
In the last years of his life, Sergei as if he was testing his fate. He really liked the extreme - diving, sailing on a yacht, hunting, high-speed driving. Six months before his death, he had a strange accident that nearly ended in tragedy. The yachtsman did not cope with the control of his own sailboat, almost drowned. He was lucky and kept his legs in the water for four hours until the rescue crew arrived.

The high-speed ride gave him unimaginable pleasure. On December 8, 2001, the journalist went to his dacha in the Tver region, he wanted to ride a snowmobile. Local residents found the star presenter in the evening near the village of Edimonovo. The journalist was dead. The cause of death was an accident. Sergei was racing down the Volga ice at breakneck speed until his snowmobile slammed into the pier. The journalist, thrown onto the ice with terrible force, suffered a head injury that was incompatible with life.

Ivanushki International

Ivanushki international is a Russian musical group, founded in 1995 by composer and producer Igor Matvienko.

The name "IVANUSHKI" was suggested by the poet German Vitke, and Igor Matvienko added "International" to declare in the name a new look at the use of traditions of Russian song culture and modern arrangements, stage movement, musical fashion.

The reasons for the success of the group "IVANUCHI INTERNATIONAL" lie in the synthesis of professionally written songs, modern arrangements, good vocal data of the performers and a bright dance show. Each member of the group has a creative personality, and they try to evoke positive emotions both from teenagers and adults with their performance.

Ivanushki International continue to tour Russia, often performing in clubs, at various concert venues and pop festivals. Though their former popularity is over, they appear in many glossy magazines, their songs are in rotation of many radio stations, and they themselves are planning to present their new album to the public.

Yegor Letov

Yegor Letov was the founder and leader of Grazhdanskaya Oborona, a writer and performer in the punk rock style. After his death he was repeatedly called the "godfather" of this musical genre.

One of the most nontrivial domestic musicians Yegor Letov is rightfully considered the patriarch of Siberian punk rock. The founder of Grazhdanskaya Oborona had such talent and charisma that he became the voice for the whole generation, which grew up at the turn of the great era.

Childhood and youth
The singer's real name is Igor. He was born in Omsk on September 10, 1964 in the family of a military man and a doctor. According to unconfirmed information, in early childhood the boy had to endure clinical death.

His interest in music was not accidental, because his older brother, Sergei, was a famous saxophone improviser who worked with many popular bands. In addition, the brothers' father was also close to the arts: in the army he was a singer and participated in performances of the Soviet Army Choir.

Egor finished high school with good marks, but his further studies did not work out. After receiving his high school diploma, in 1982 the young man moved to the Moscow region, where his brother Sergei had left earlier. There, he enrolled in a vocational school as a builder, but was soon expelled for unsatisfactory grades.

He had to return to his native Omsk, where the artist founded the band Posev. Letov plunged himself into creative work, taking the pseudonym "Yegor Dohlyi". Only the first part of the stage name caught on, and the second part was eventually forgotten.

In parallel with the creative career continued and working biography musician: the Omsk enterprises, he part-time janitor and builder, as well as drawing campaign materials and portraits of Lenin for the celebrations.

Creativity

In those years, Yegor could not yet afford to purchase high-quality sound recording equipment, so he had to write on an ordinary tape recorder. The creative process was done in an ordinary apartment with primitive equipment, so the sound quality was below average. But even after becoming popular, Letov did not give up the old method of recording, making "apartment" sound his thing.

As the singer himself admitted, the American garage music of the 1960s had a great influence on his style. His idols were transatlantic rock-experimentalists, who performed in the punk and psychedelic genre.

"Posev existed until 1984, after which the musician decided to found Grazhdanskaya Oborona.

Most of the "GO" concerts took place underground, and cassettes of their songs were secretly distributed by hand. Soviet youth, hungry for freedom of speech, enthusiastically embraced the brand new music and foul lyrics filled with clear meaning. Each composition of the band was filled with incredible energy, original sound and recognizable rhythms.

Egor's allies think that Yegor is an example of the fact that it is possible to play rock even if you are not a virtuoso player on the strings and drums. Nowadays Letov is considered to be the founder of punk rock in Russia, but the singer never called himself a punk. He just always opposed something - the existing system, stereotypes, himself. His critical thinking was directly reflected in his creative work, and other punk bands took advantage of it later on.

Near the end of the 80s the musician's new project "Communism" was released. By that time Yegor had already been intimately involved with a rock singer and songwriter Yanka Dyagileva, who tragically died in the early 1990s. Yanka had no time to finish her album Shame and Shame, so after her death, Letov finished the job his friend had begun.

"Grazhdanskaya Oborona ceased to exist in 1990. Its founder decided that the group was slipping more and more into pop, while it was known and loved as a rock band. The singer began to develop psychedelic rock, and his first brainchild in this direction was a series of records "Yegor and O♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥enyevshie". Three years later Letov decided to reanimate "GO" and continued his creative path, working in two bands. In 1995 new albums were released - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Solntsevorot".

Later the musician recorded some more albums, which partially included re-recorded old hits. The most popular compositions were "White Silence" and "My Defense". The last time the band performed on a concert stage was in Yekaterinburg in the winter of 2008. This performance was filmed by a local TV company.

At the turn of the century, Yegor immersed himself in politics: he joined the National Bolshevik Party, often appeared in the company of Viktor Ampilov, Eduard Limonov, and Alexander Dugin. The musician gave up his political activity in 2004.

While performing at a concert in Voronezh, Letov met another representative of punk rock, Yuri Hoy, the lead singer of the legendary "Sector Gaza. Yura, who showed up in the dressing room, was surprised by Letov's appearance: he pictured the GO leader as a sort of a big man who never let go of his bottle of booze. But in fact, the appearance of the band's frontman was quite different.

Yegor had a rather cool attitude toward the legendary Victor Tsoi, but he did admit that he liked some of his songs.

Persecution

The singer did not openly oppose the Soviet regime, but was a well-known opponent of the communist system. His songs always had a clear protest subtext disguised by the feigned indifference of a punk. As the band became popular, the Suits got more and more interested in its lead singer.

At first, the authorities issued verbal warnings to Letov, but the artist continued to perform in the same vein. When KGB demanded to close the group and its creator refused, he was forcibly put in a mental hospital. There the rebellious musician was subjected to the methods of treatment that are often shown in films: they injected him with the strongest drugs of neuroleptic effect and so on. These drugs cause a complete change in the patient's psyche, and Yegor was on the verge of madness. In order not to lose his ability to think, he began to write poetry and, for the first time, prose.

After staying in a medical hell for about four months the singer was finally released. He managed to escape thanks to his brother Sergey who promised the authorities to publish this story in the foreign press so that the whole world could know about how recalcitrant musicians were being destroyed in the Union.

Death of a legend

Letov died on February, 19 2008 in his native Omsk. According to the official version the cause was cardiac arrest, but there is an opinion that the singer died of alcohol intoxication.

Fans from all over Russia came to say goodbye to his idol. Yegor was buried at the Omsk cemetery near his mother's grave. Two years later, a monument in the form of a marble cube with an image of an ancient Christian cross (the Jerusalem cross) was erected at the burial place of the rock star.

During the wave of renaming Russian airports in 2018, the singer's name was nominated for the Omsk airport. Despite being in the lead, Letov was not allowed into the second round. In response, a small private airfield in the Omsk region was named after the artist. Unfortunately, a year later the facility was closed by court order.

Sergei Letov also contributed to the perpetuation of the singer's memory. He gave the local museum an apartment where his famous brother once lived.

TSUM

TSUM is the largest and most famous store with global brands from Russia, located in the historic central part of the capital. It is within walking distance of other major attractions. Often you can meet Russian celebrities as well as world stars as customers here.

The history of the Central Department Store building dates back to the 18th century, when the Muir & Merilize store was built by two Scottish businessmen on the same place. However, after several fires it was decided to rebuild the store.

During the period from 1906 to 1908 according to the projects of the architect R. Klein, the main 7-storey building of the Central Department Store was built. It was the Russian architect who invented the project in the Gothic style with Art Nouveau elements, which is so attractive for tourists.

But after the revolution in 1917 the building was taken over by the state and soon it was occupied by the Soviet Mostorg (later renamed the Central Department Store - TSUM).

During the World War II the first floors were occupied by card stores, and the upper floors were occupied by barracks. After the war in the 50-s the specific character of the store was focused on the sale of high quality goods and already at that time the usual Soviet counters disappeared and the stores worked on the self-service.

During the following years the area of the shopping center was enlarged by additions and reconstructions by German companies.

VDNH

VDNKh - the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy - is the largest multifunctional exhibition, congress and recreation complex in Moscow, occupying more than 235 hectares. Every year it is visited by more than 20 million Muscovites and guests of the capital.

It is at VDNKh where you can see outstanding architectural masterpieces, which together represent a monument to the Soviet era and a sample of the prevailing styles at different times. Among them are the monument "Worker and Collective Farm Girl", the fountains "Friendship of Peoples" and "Stone Flower", the pavilions "Farming", "Soviet Culture", "Space" and others.

Dashti - Margo

Dashti - Margo is a clay-sand desert in the Middle East, in the southwestern part of Afghanistan, between the valleys of the Helmand and Khashrud rivers.

The area of the desert is about 150,000 km²; the height above sea level is 500-700 m. In the southwestern part of the desert there are massifs of sands, between which there are takyrs and salt marshes. Dasht means "valley" in Persian, and marg means "death", hence Dasht-e marg - the valley of death.

Murzilka

Murzilka is a Soviet and, since 1991, a Russian monthly literary and art magazine published since 1924, addressed to children from 6 to 12 years old.

Since 1923, Rabochaya Gazeta, published in Moscow, published a supplement for children - the magazine Young Builders. The supplement had a circulation of up to 100,000 copies and was published with the participation of a group of Komsomol pedagogues and journalists of the older generation, with Olga Spandaryan as its editor. The magazine published works by Soviet writers, popular science articles, and articles about the pioneer movement in the country. In the magazine there was a section "Red Maquis", on the basis of which in 1924 it was decided to create a magazine for kids.

The new magazine was named after the puppy Murzilka - the hero of the stories of children's writer AA Fedorov-Davydov. It was with the story of A. A. Fedorov-Davydov (under the pseudonym of R. K.) "Murzilka first day" began the first issue of the magazine. In the story Murzilka is the fourth puppy of the dog Zhuchka, named by Stepan the locksmith ("What a dog! And quick! Murzilka and all!").

Columbo

Columbo is an American detective television series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. The pilot episode aired in 1968; it was filmed regularly from 1971-1978 (44 episodes out of 69), and after a hiatus from 1989-2003.

The lead role of Lieutenant Columbo, a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, was starred indefinitely by actor Peter Falk.

The series' protagonist, Lieutenant Columbo of the LAPD Homicide Unit, had a very unusual image for his time as a police detective. In contrast to the brutal or highly intelligent detective characters common at the time, Columbo had an ordinary and even somewhat unkempt appearance, very simple, though always polite manners, and in general looked more like a working man than a high-class detective. This image, according to the authors of the series, was inspired by the image of Detective Alfred Fichet from seasoned in the spirit of Hitchcockian suspense "Devil's Girls" ( "Les Diaboliques", 1954, France). The image of Columbo was extremely successful and immediately attracted the attention of viewers.

Another feature of "Columbo" was that the series was built on the non-standard at the time of the scheme of the inverted detective: the viewer knows from the beginning who the killer is, how and why the crime was committed, and how the offender is trying to cover his tracks. The main intrigue became only how Columbo would manage to expose him. As a rule, the murderer in the series prepares the crime very carefully and thoughtfully, believing in committing the "perfect crime." This turns each episode into a kind of intellectual duel, allowing you to view the story not only from the point of view of the investigator, as is usually the case in classic detectives, but also from that of the perpetrator.

Carr - Maine

"Carr-Man was a Russian musical group that worked in a genre whose name was coined by the musicians themselves: exotic-pop. Sergei Lemokh and Bogdan Titomir starred brightly in the early '90s. Now each of the soloists is known mostly to fans of club life.

The idea to unite into one band was given to Sergey and Bogdan by composer Arkady Ukupnik. He was also the first producer of the musicians. The members of "Car-Man" didn't start working on stage all of a sudden, before that they had worked with Dmitry Malikov and Vladimir Maltsev: Titomir played bass and Lemokh played keyboards. They wrote the song "Paris" for Vladimir, which was later included in the first album.

The official date of the band's formation is January 1990. Stylish and fashionable guys, performing bombastic dance hits, became the first male duo on the musical Olympus of new Russia. Their music trend, referred to as "Traveller's Club" by some sources, or "Exotic Pop" by others, quickly gained popularity. At first the group was called that - "Exotic Pop Duo", then "Carmen" followed.

Later, according to Lemokh, the guys went on about the fans and changed the name, dissociating themselves from the analogy with the beloved Spanish beauty. As Sergey later said, the phrase "Car-Man" is a reference to the American concept "CarMan", which means "road man, traveler" or "truck driver".

Pager

A pager is a kind of "text message receiver" operating on radio frequencies. Messages were usually sent from a paging center, where you had to call and dictate the message and the recipient's number to the operator, and later you could do without calling and write to e-mail.

It was impossible to reply to a message (yes, later there were Twagers, but that's another story).

The heyday of pager era came in the 80s, the messages from the operators could be duplicated and stored on your computer. In the 90s, Motorola introduced the two-way pager, the tweager, which could be used to send messages both ways. However, they were a little late, because at the same time cell phones began to appear and eclipsed the era of the pager.

In the USSR, the first pagers appeared in the 1960s and were used by ambulances, the KGB and other government agencies. Their wider use began in 1980, in connection with the Olympics in Moscow. At that time the British firm Multitone deployed a network called Radio Locator, which helped emergency services and other workers to quickly coordinate their actions.

However, it wasn't until 1994 that pagers began to be used for general use. The first Russified pager MIT-472 from the already familiar Multitone went on sale in the same year for $ 380, and subscription fees ranged from 100 to 300 rubles a month. Subscribers could connect additional services like weather, traffic jams, currency exchange rates, and the like.

Dandy

Dendy is a game console, an unofficial hardware clone of the third-generation Famicom console (known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States and Europe) by the Japanese firm Nintendo. The Dendy was based on the Japanese hardware design and cartridge format, slightly different from the American one.

In 1992, the Nintendo Entertainment System (or Famicom in Japan) was already considered an obsolete console, superseded by the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive. Dodgy Chinese were busy making illegal clones of both old and new consoles, doing business in Eastern Europe, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. In the young Russian Federation about these consoles heard only a few, which was used by successful entrepreneurs, ordering a console based on the "Famiklon" Micro Genius from TXC.

Steepler began to develop an advertising campaign for the brand. The Dandy elephant was created by Ivan Maksimov, an artist and cartoonist (who now teaches at Shar Studio School), Alexey Sitnikov, a specialist in NLP (neurolinguistic programming) helped to write the advertising texts, the jingle was composed and performed by Neschastny sluchai band, and famous blogger Rustem Adagamov was busy designing the boxes.

The final stage of the advertising campaign was a viral video, which was widely shown on Russian TV. The video presented the elephant Dandy and the song "Dandy Dandy, we all love Dandy! Dandy! Everybody plays!".

Two weeks before 1993, Steepler launched Dendy sales in its company stores. Steepler knew full well that they were selling a counterfeit copy of Nintendo's console, so they cultivated an image of top quality licensed products around the brand.

The first branded stores opened in Moscow on Petrovka 12, Krasnaya Presnya 34 and in the passage to GUM from the metro station "Ploshchad Revolutsii" on Red Square. One can only guess how much the rent in the center of Moscow right next to the Kremlin cost Stipler.

By the end of 1993, the brand had become tremendously popular in Russia, the consoles were selling out in official stores like hotcakes. Steepler grew richer every day, and by 1994 the company's cash turnover had risen to $65 million. A day sold from two to five thousand consoles throughout Russia. The number of those wishing to buy a console grew so that the company was faced with an excess of demand over supply, and temporarily suspended the advertising campaign.

The name of the brand has become a household name for all the "Famiklons. All children wanted the console, it was a welcome gift for the New Year or a birthday. The elder generation didn't distinguish between 8-bit and 16-bit platforms, calling all consoles "Dandy". Sometimes it was difficult to explain to parents why Dendy was outdated and why Sega was better than the 8-bit bought last year for the birthday.

VID

VID (stands for "Vzglyad & Others") is a Soviet and Russian brand engaged in the development and implementation of various television projects. The firm produces programs for major federal domestic channels as well as major post-Soviet channels.

Vlad Listyev thought long and hard about what to use as a logo for the new TV company. His wife Albina, who worked as a restorer at the Museum of Oriental Art for 10 years, came to help. She suggested using a ceramic mask depicting the head of the ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher Guo Xiang with a three-legged toad. There is also a version that the mask was a symbol of death in ancient China (the mask symbolically depicted a severed human head, on top of which was planted a toad). However, the museum banned the use of the original mask as a logo, so the mask was slightly modified using computer graphics and named "Mask View".

The mask, designed as a TV company logo, looked pretty creepy (a dead human face with a scary grimace and an incomprehensible "growth" - a toad - on its head) That's why small children were very frightened when they saw it on TV before watching children's and entertainment programs (for example, Starry Hour or Field of Wonder).

Besides, the background was accompanied by eerie music and bright flashes of black and white light that added to the frightening effect.

The image of the "Mask of Wid" caused a wave of controversy in Russia. After watching it a few times, many young children developed serious fears and phobias associated with it (for example, fear of the dark). Also, the bright black and white flashes in the background caused problems for epileptic patients. There were requests for the network to stop airing the title.

In mid-1998, the flashes were removed because they caused problems for people with epilepsy, and the creepy music was replaced by Andrei Razbash's voice, which said, "VID presents.

Final

This text was copied from the user "The classic®" and translated via "DeepL[www.deepl.com]".
This guide was created especially for the English-speaking audience of Tiny Bunny!
If you find grammatical errors, feel free to write about it in the comments!

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