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package tours (continued)
profi tability of, 74; putevki for, 105; rules
on, 232; types of, 104
pajama tourists, 112, 130, 144, 267
Pakistan, 240
Pamir Mountains, 72
pansions: for automobile tourism, 237;
expansion of, 189, 194, 196, 206, 208,
265; for family vacations, 206, 273;
patients in, 33 ; preference for, 192, 199;
prerevolutionary, 19, 26, 27; in Sochi,
193; tourist bases as, 70
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (physiologist): and
spa regime, 156, 165
Petrov, Evgenii (writer), 61
Petrozavodsk, 111
physical culture: in health spas, 15, 42, 177
Physical Culture and Sport, Committee on,
70–73, 141
Piatigorsk (Caucasian Mineral Waters):
in nineteenth century, 17; social
composition of vacationers in, 33; as
spa town, 26
Pilsudski, Marshal Jozef, 249
pioneer camps, 36, 194, 204, 273–274
Plastinina (physician-administrator), 150,
156
pleasure: in health spas; 156, 180; and
socialism, 6; as vacation goal, 50–51,
92–93
Plekhanov Economics Institute (Moscow),
192 n65, 267
Poland, 241, 246–249; and inhospitality to
Soviet tourists, 249
Polytechnical Museum (Moscow), 120
Popov, Aleksei, 250 n120
Popovskii, Mark, 203
Preobrazhenskaia, Mariia (alpinist), 72
proletarian tourism: defi nitions of, 90–91;
goals of, 90. See also tourism
public health, 15, 175
putevki: allocation of, 29, 30, 132, 147,
160, 188, 190–191, 201, 224–225; mis-
use of, 31–32, 35, 147–148, 199; prices
of, 29, 119–121, 145, 160, 189–190, 253,
273; priority for, 147, 196–198, 201; as
prizes, 120; radial, 112; sales of, 160
Putin, Vladimir, 27railroad tours, 230–233, 258
rail transport, 79, 105, 180, 230–233; dis-
counts for, 31, 59, 61–62, 65, 79, 119; in
nineteenth century, 17
record-breaking ( rekordsmenstvo ), 102Red Army spas, 18
Red Square (Moscow), 150
Reid, Susan E., 3, 6, 171
religion: in tourist itineraries abroad, 246
Reserve, The (U.S.: The Boys from Lenin-
grad) (Zapasnoi Igrok) (fi lm), 234
rest ( otdykh ): defi ned, 3, 14, 278
Rest (Otdykh) (cooperative society), 266
restaurants, 43, 107, 192, 195, 263
rest homes ( doma otdykha ), 12, 20, 22–23,
189; activities in, 21, 23, 42; as alterna-
tives to health spas, 22; boredom in,
41, 46; capacity of, 21, 189; cultural
activities in, 45, 47, 152; and medicine,
21, 40, 156, 175; postwar conditions in,
135–137; on river boats, 24; rules in, 41,
156; social composition in, 148, 198;
and women workers, 22, 36
Ritsa, Lake (Abkhaziia), 99, 231 , 232
river cruises: in 1930s, 24–25, 109–110;
conditions on, 159–160; cultural activi-
ties on, 235; expansion of, 226, 233–234;
prices of, 105, 224, 226, 233–234, 237 ;
problems on, 116–117; as rest homes,
24–25, 110, 234; and sex, 234; social
composition on, 254
Rogovskii, N. M. (trade union tourist
offi cial), 139
Romania, 245, 264
Romanov, N. N. (trade union secretary), 257
Roth-Ey, Kristin, 155
rowboat tourism, 143; on Volga River, 125
Rudomino, M. I. (architect), 189 n57
Russian nationalism in 1960s, 181–182,
276
Russian Society of Tourists, 54–55sailboat tourism, 115
Sakhalin Island, 230; tourists from, 150
Samara, 117
Samarkand (Uzbekistan), 108
Seliger, Lake (central Russia), 146 , 187,
258, 276
Semashko, Nikolai (Commissar of Public
Health), 12
Serebriannyi bor (Moscow), 220
Serebrovskii (food supply offi cial), 136
service, 118, 137; in health spas, 179–180;
in rest homes, 138; in restaurants, 158
Sestroretsk (Leningrad region), 28
Sevastopol', 26
seven-year plan (1959–1965), 184
sex: absence of discussion about, 202–203; at
health spas, 37, 39; on river cruises, 234;