Index
Abkhaziia steamship, 113–114, 116, 243,
251
Abkhaziia tourism authority, 266
Abukov, Aleksei Khurshudovich (tourism
offi cial), 223, 262, 265, 275; on social
composition of tourists, 252–254
accommodations: for automobile tourists,
237; complaints about, 118; expansion
of, 230; in hotels, 6, 75, 79; in hotels in
1930s, 107; in hotels abroad, 263; in ho-
tels as alternatives to health spas, 190; in
Moscow, 228; postwar, 140; private, 195;
publicity about, 268; as tourist hotels,
161, 265, 270–271. See also pansions
Adelung, N. N. (tourism activist), 141
advertising. See marketing of tourism
Aganbegian, Abel (economist), 1
agricultural tours, 104
agricultural workers, 32, 121, 198, 254, 281
air travel, 228, 264, 265
Aksenov, Vasilii (writer), 202
alcohol consumption, 256; at health spas,
40, 41, 155; by tourists abroad, 244
Aleksandrov, P. S. (mathematician), 95 n14,
96, 125
All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition
(Moscow), 106
All-Union Exhibition of Economic
Achievements (Moscow), 227
all-union review of vacation health places,
1950, 137–138
All-Union Scientifi c Research Laboratory
for Tourism and Excursions, 267
alpinism: dangers in, 100–101; instructors,
80; prestige of, 72–73
Altai region (Siberia), 229; tourists from,
245
amateur evenings, 45, 153
Anapa (Krasnodar region), 38 , 194, 273
Arctic, 107–108, 123–124, 236
art appreciation, 182
Ashkhabad, 108
Austria, 264
automobiles: ownership of, 180, 264; and
tourism, 161, 236–238, 247; as transport,
79, 180
autostop (hitchhiking), 238bad trips, 100, 115–119
Baikal, Lake, 229
Bakhchisarai (Crimea), 106, 156
Balaton, Lake (Hungary), 271
balnealogical therapy, 25, 26, 42, 175–176
Baltic republics, 128
Baranowski, Shelley, 5
Barkhash, Lev (tourism activist), 72
Beer, Daniel, 14 n8
Belgium, 264
Belorussia, 128, 230
Be My Husband (Bud'te moim muzhem)
(fi lm), 195
Bergman, G. (tourism activist), 89, 101
Bern (Switzerland), 57 n9
bicycle tourism, 72, 112, 122–126
Bishop, Peter, 169
Black Sea coast, 132, 163, 187, 229;
prestige of, 199; resort culture in, 16
Black Sea cruises. See ocean cruises
Bobrik-Gora rest home (Moscow oblast),
138
Bolshevik Sports Society, 143
Boorstin, Daniel J., 103 n38
Borodino, 79, 94
Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich, 172, 176, 285Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations, photographs, or tables.