Club Red. Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream - Diane P. Koenker

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Post-proletarian Tourism 231

Tourist excursion by open touring cars to Lake Ritsa in the mountains above Sukhumi. S.
V. Kurashov, L. G. Gol'dfail', and G. N. Pospelova, eds., Kurorty SSSR (Moscow: Gosudarst-
vennoe izdatel'stvo meditsinskoi literatury, 1962), facing page 545.

Uzhgorod, in the Carpathian Mountains, the train tourists mingled with those
at the local tourist base in an evening of dancing and games. They also rel-
ished the opportunity to encounter the natural surroundings through which
they traveled, and in their comments they requested that even more physical
activities and sports be added to future tours. In the Caucasus, 250 of 443

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