Index 301Eastern Europe: travel to, 10, 241, 242. See
also individual countries
ecological concerns, 276
economic planning, 266, 282, 284
economic reform, 192, 193; before 1950,
159; in 1950s, 160; and health spas,
190–191; in tourism pricing policy, 266
Egorov, I. (chairman of Sovetskii Turist), 60
Egypt, 240
Elbrus, Mount (Caucasus), 26, 106; tourist
hotel, 78–79
electrotherapy, 42
Elektrozavod (Moscow), 23, 35, 39
employees, white collar: and access to
health spas, 31–32, 33 ; as tourists, 121,
252–254
Endy, Christopher, 5
England, 114
Enisei tourist base (Siberia), 222
Eremenko (health ministry offi cial), 173,
197
Essentuki (Caucasian Mineral Waters), 17, 26
Ethiopia, 240
Europe: as destination, 114; health spas in,
14, 17, 26. See also individual countries
Evpatoria (Crimea), 25, 30
Family Vacation Villages (France), 239, 280
family vacations, 36, 37, 39, 161, 162 ;
attitudes about, 202, 204, 205; demand
for, 206, 207; in Eastern Europe, 264; as
ideal, 277; obstacles to, 204–206, 273,
281; policy on, 201–207
Far East region, 187, 230
Feoktistov, Konstantin (cosmonaut), 210
Field, Deborah A., 204 n97
fi lm, 47, 152–154, 240, 250, 271; propa-
ganda, 48–49
Finland, 115, 241
First Model print shop (Moscow), 35
fi shing cabins, 239, 254
fi ve-year plan: fi rst (1929–1933), 19, 26,
56; second (1933–1937), 19, 23; third
(1938), 50
Fokin, I. (tourist), 114–115
food: comments about, 118, 135, 156,
157, 184; on cruises, 117; and ethnic
cuisines, 158; on foreign tours, 248; at
health spas, 158; on railroad tours, 232;
at rest homes, 44, 44 ; in restaurants, 107;
and Russian cuisine, 276; in spa regime,
42–43; on tourist trips, 96–97, 123, 156
food supply: planning for, 195; postwar,
134, 137, 140; and shortages, 78, 157
Fordism, 170, 208
France, 114, 264–265; spa culture in, 14
Freidberg, Il'ia (bicycle tourist), 112
From the Lives of Vacationers ( Iz zhizni
otdykhaiushchikhsia ) (fi lm), 189, 209
Fürst, Juliane, 154Gagarin, Yuri (cosmonaut), 249
Gaidai, Leonid (fi lm director), 167 n3
Gelendzhik rest home (Krasnodar region),
177
Genis, Aleksandr, 211, 215, 223
Georgian Military Highway, 60, 64, 103
German Democratic Republic, 241, 247,
248, 251
Germany (in 1930s), 113–114
Germany (West), 264
Ghana, 240
Ginzburg, Eugenia, 283
Girl Hurries to a Rendezvous, A (Devushka
speshit na svidaniia) (fi lm), 37, 51
Glenn, John (astronaut), 125 n92
Golden Ring (central Russia), 275
Golden Sands resort (Bulgaria), 272
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 172
Gor'kii (Nizhnii Novgorod), 25
Gorsuch, Anne E., 11 n23; on consumer
desires of women, 256; on Estonia,
230 n62; on tourism abroad, 241–243;
on travel to Western Europe, 243 n93; on
trip leaders, 242
Govorkov, V. (artist), 225
grape therapy, 25
Greece, 240, 250
Grushin, Boris (sociologist), 205
guidebooks, 224, 251, 271; photographs in,
161–163Hammer and Sickle factory (Moscow): ac-
cess to health spas of, 34; rest home of,
23, 48; vacationers from, 50, 135, 149,
271
Happy-Go-Lucky (Pechki-lavochki) (fi lm),
180 n34, 198, 205 n102, 228 n56
health spas ( kurorty ), 4, 10, 12, 32, 150;
access to, 31, 32–34, 52, 139; administra-
tion of, 139, 150, 164; amenities in, 50;
boredom in, 47; capacity of 1945–1950,
139; construction delays in, 193; cul-
tural activities in, 45–47, 152–155, 183;
decline of vacations in, 163; in Europe,
14, 17; expansion of, 186, 193, 206;
fi nancing of, 50, 188–189, 192, 193; food
preparation in, 157–158, 165; guidebooks