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Table 5.2 Production worker composition of vacationers in 1963, by selected kurort terri-
tory, in ascending orderKurort regionPercentage of workers among
all vacationers
All kurorts 45.3
Ten least proletarian
Kislovodsk 26.3
Moldavia 31.5
Sochi 31.9
Georgia 32.9
Dagestan 35.0
Armenia 37.1
Kazakhstan 37.2
Piatigorsk 39.9
Lithuania 40.6
Sakhalin 41.7
Ten most proletarian
Tatar republic 51.0
Saratov 51.1
Ivanovo 51.4
Kirgizia 52.5
Cheliabinsk 52.8
Krasnoiarsk 54.1
Leningrad 54.6
Perm 54.6
Arkhangel'sk 56.9
Novosibirsk 59.7
Source: GARF, f. 9493, op. 8, d. 502, ll. 1–3.putevki there. Whereas workers accounted for 45.3 percent of all vacationers,
whether in sanatoria or rest homes, they were much less likely to end up in
the favored spots of the Caucasus Mineral Waters (Piatigorsk and Kislovodsk)
or Sochi. If status is measured by the smallest proportion of workers in resi-
dence, then Kislovodsk retained its status, fi rst noted in the 1930s.
We should not assume that all social groups shared the same preferences.
The development of a socialist consumer economy allowed for the diver-
sifi cation of tastes, whether in newspapers, commodities, or leisure activi-
ties. The uneven distribution of workers among destinations and types of