Russian gopniks have captured the European consciousness. How Russian gopniks conquered the Internet and taught the West to sit on the courts

IN English language There is such a word as privacy*. In the Russian language there is something completely different - gopnik. The meanings of both are almost impossible to convey to native language, it’s generally useless to translate. But both words characterize some kind of...

There is such a word in English privacy*. In the Russian language there is something completely different - gopnik. The meanings of both are almost impossible to convey in one’s native language; it is generally useless to translate. But both words characterize some kind of unique environment. For example, they have complete freedom of movement - at any time and in any direction. This is privacy. We have a passport regime, registration, “detention until clarification.” This is absolutely legal bullshit. And it is impossible to combine these two concepts. They are mutually exclusive.

Over the past hundred years, we have given two definitions to gopniks. Vagrants, beggars and petty thieves. These formed the backbone of the poor committees who dispossessed the peasants. For them, on the site of two Petrograd hotels, the Bolsheviks opened the “City Hostel of the Proletariat” (abbreviated as “GOP”). It's 1920.

Poorly educated youth of the city outskirts, the LDPR electorate, driving tuning “nines”. They gnaw seeds at the entrances, litter on the sidewalks, hate visitors from the CIS, engage in petty racketeering, wear pointy shoes and drink strong beer from plastic cups. It's already the 90s.

Both of them, as is commonly believed, no longer exist. According to legend, the Gopnik concentrate of the beginning of the century was destroyed Soviet authority, with difficulty dissolving them into the mass of decent citizens. The same thing happened with the gopniks of the 90s, the bastards of the transition period - this is how stability under Vladimir Putin affected the stratum. But it would be stupid to say that in both cases the bullshit was over. Gopnik just disappeared into the crowd, changed into new clothes and got behind the wheel of another car. The masses, in turn, acquired some of his signs. Gopnichestvo itself has ceased to denote a narrow group of people; now it is a character trait of every person. And the key properties - lack of understanding of the boundaries of personal freedom, that is, privacy, hostility and even the lack of self-irony - are now inherent in everyone.

But for some more, for others not. Someone is almost a gopnik, and someone is almost decent. Who, for example, is my friend, the sweet-looking young accountant Roman, I still don’t know. In his red Peugeot, he gave way to pedestrians. An hour later, he knocked off the rear-view mirror from a neighbor’s car in the parking lot and drove on. For the birthday of our mutual friend Sergei, Roma books a table at one of Novikov’s restaurants and gives him some vague Mexican bamboo. And an hour later, after a little friendly banter over the gift, he hits Sergeyev’s face with all his might. Finally, Roma complains about the dominance of migrants. And then he convinces us that Estonia is the only Nazi country in the world.

Gopnichestvo has a different appearance and new habits. Using Roman as an example, we have compiled instructions on how to recognize a modern Gopnik, what signs and differences he has from his predecessors.

*Privacy- designation of immunity privacy, personal freedoms of a person and their boundaries established by law.

Gopnik and Gopnik

The Gopnik of the 90s did not understand the meaning of the word “Gopnik”. The concept was used only outside the Gopnik layer. In this sense, G. were designated as a kind of closed subculture like punks, skinheads or goths. But unlike them, the G. did not assign any names to the rest of the population (among the punks and Goths, ordinary citizens were “civilians”). Moreover, G. did not recognize the difference between themselves and other people. Modern representatives of this stratum very often use the concept of G. in relation to visitors, the unemployed, politically indifferent people, people without higher education. This is what Roman does, being a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. With G.'s inherent intolerance, Roman despises everyone who is like him.

Note:as a synonym for G. Lately“redneck” is used: “office redneck”, “redneck from the Caucasus”, “fashionable redneck”, etc.

Gopnik and privacy

The last thing Roma will think about is the interests and comfort of those around her. Roma doesn’t seem to know at all about other people’s interests. Therefore, he easily throws cigarette butts out of the window onto the heads of passers-by. Before buying the car, Roma had never given up his seat to women or elderly people on the subway. And then - your own parking spot on the sidewalk. If Roma had a dog, he would take it to the toilet on the playground and wouldn’t even think about grabbing a bag. For Roma, there is only his own privacy, although he does not know what it is. And he always provides it at the expense of others.

Gopnik and clothes

Pointed shoes bought at the market, a tracksuit and a cap with a short visor are becoming a thing of the past. Shopping centers With European clothes There are now in every district of Moscow and other million-plus cities. G. joined casual style: casual jeans, shirt, sneakers. But at the same time, the element of bad taste has not gone away: modern G. fell in love with cheap chic and pretentiousness. An inexpensive T-shirt must have rhinestones, sneakers should have sparkles, preferably in a golden hue. Under the (specially) unbuttoned shirt, again with rhinestones, there is a thick chain. In the summer, instead of shorts, young G. wear jeans rolled up to the knees. And it is impossible to understand what the goal is being pursued here.

In general, any thing should give off pathos, this is fundamental - with a suit for 5 thousand rubles. Be sure to wear bright cufflinks. Clothes should not only look chic, they should shout about it. Hence G.’s painful desire to buy fakes famous brands. Our Roman has a large golden plaque with the inscription Prada on his belt. In the passage on Pushkinskaya such a thing costs 700 rubles. (“The fashionable redneck” wears the original, but the badges are still the same - golden and huge.)

The Zara chain of stores is very popular among Roma. Despite the long lines, Roma has no favorite store. For 15 thousand rubles. there you can dress from head to toe. Moreover, things according to external signs very similar to the range of more expensive brands. If you stick big Armani letters to some jeans, you won’t be able to tell them apart at all. Zara has been accused of piracy more than once. But how can you refuse such a wonderful niche?

Gopnik and non-Gopnik

Unlike his predecessor, modern G. strives to be like a non-gopnik. Roman communicates at work with the most different people. But close contacts are difficult to achieve, which irritates Roma. His inability to joke and generally understand irony repels ordinary citizens. It is also impossible to convince Roma of anything. Like any G., Roma speaks out on any topic and does not recognize alternative opinions. So a dispute with Roma is considered an invasion of his privacy zone and, most likely, will end in an invasion of yours. In a conversation, he likes to touch his interlocutor with his hands, thereby emphasizing the idea. When you start talking, Roma will immediately get distracted by his own affairs, stare at the phone or turn on the radio.

Gopnik and power

In general, G. is extremely apolitical. But G. has his own opinion about power. If our Roman went to the polls, it was only because his colleagues and friends went to the polls. Although Roma doesn’t care about the interests of those around him, conforming to the infidels is his main idea. Despite this, Roman cannot be trusted because of his voice. Power, in his opinion, cannot be so complicated. It should be specific, clear, but not directly affecting Roma himself. The president has such power, for which every G. sincerely loves him. At the same time, G. despises all its other representatives. And he is afraid of specific ones - the police, tax authorities, etc. Unlike the president, they can always apply their direct and obvious power to G.. But Roma, like a normal G., does not accept this.

Gopnik and patriotism

Gopnik and civic activism

Young G.'s apoliticality can always be overcome. The only important thing is to publicly share his views. Now several political forces are doing this at once - starting with the DPNI, ending with the more decent ones - the Young Guard and Nashi. But among the DPNI and “Nashi” there are too many actual G., whom Roman avoids whenever possible (see Gopnik and Gopnik). Therefore, in his favorites on this moment"United Russia".

Gopnik and the law

Nobody follows the laws, for this reason Roman does the same. Corresponding, as it seems to him, to the masses. He often gets behind the wheel drunk. Doesn't consciously fasten his seat belt. Another thing is that when he was once hit in the ass at a crossroads, Roman changed his manners somewhat. But I still haven’t learned to obey the laws - this can only be forced. That is why G. so dislikes power in the person of specific executors (see Gopnik and power). By invading G.'s unlimited privacy, they force him to change his views. And for self-confident G. there is nothing more terrible.

Gopnik and music

Here Roman has gone far from G. of the previous decade. Instead of techno and chanson - R&B and Britpop. Roma also knows the lyrics to “A Star Called the Sun” and “Oh-Oh.” And it’s already better than techno. But something doesn’t give me peace. Some kind of hesitating song between the tracks “Verv” and “Radiohead” “Wait, where am I going?!” girls from "Star Factory". A little more - and now they are playing “Don’t Go Crazy” by Timati, “Don’t Be Born Beautiful” by Yulia Savicheva...

Still, it would be better if he listened to techno with chanson.

Gopnik and the church

Probably nothing warms Roma more than the Orthodox faith and solitude in church. Baptized of his own free will at the age of 20, he visits the temple every six months - at Christmas and Easter. There you can be yourself, away from all these intellectuals selling Christ. Without hesitation, take out a massive cross from under your shirt with rhinestones. And, if you have the patience, listen to what the fathers have to say.

One Christmas I met Roma with three canisters in front of the temple on Sretenka. Bypassing the service, he greedily loaded holy water into the trunk.

Verbatim

Masha Gaidar, leader of the youth organization “YES!”: For me this is synonymous with rudeness, impudence

For me, this is synonymous with rudeness and impudence. This is a person for whom no one exists around. He is absolutely not embarrassed to do what is convenient for him, although someone else may not like it. Gopnik is sure that he is always right. He proves that he is right only by force, because he knows nothing else.

Gopnik most likely had a difficult childhood. Problems in the family, difficulties with studies. He didn’t make it to university because he couldn’t and didn’t want to. Gopnik finds it difficult to communicate in company decent people, so he can only be seen among others like him.

Such people are now found in youth political organizations. This, for example, is the combat wing, so to speak, of “Nashi”. Not all “Ours”, only provocateurs who disrupt the actions and rallies of their opponents and destroy embassies. They act according to principles, and they don’t have to pay for it with sausages and glazed curds.

Alexander Belov-Potkin, leader of the DPNI: A declassed element prone to committing crude, graceless crimes

In my understanding, a gopota is a declassed element prone to committing gross crimes devoid of grace. Globally, gopota as a phenomenon manifests itself during a period of economic instability, when a large number of First of all, young people cannot realize themselves in life, are cut off from their family environment and lead an asocial lifestyle. By gathering in groups, they create a certain subculture. She is not a “classical” criminal, since the gopot lives according to quasi-concepts.

IN modern Russia and in Ukraine, gopniks, as a rule, come from urban areas in rural areas, that is, they are not peasants or townspeople in the classical sense. Each of them individually can be a good person. However, due to difficult situation in regional centers, heavy financial situation parents, average or low intellectual abilities, lack of work and other sources of livelihood, young people try to survive together, sometimes uniting in semi-criminal communities.

If you try to draw a portrait of an average gopnik, it will be a man under 25 years old, dressed in clothes bought at the “Vietnamese” market, smokes tobacco, is not averse to drinking and scoring a joint, may be the owner of a VAZ 2108 car, a fake Swiss watch most likely has short hairstyle, listens to outdated pop music or chanson, tries to talk “for life”, his face has a characteristic “country tan”, he can chew sunflower seeds. Gopnichestvo has no nationality and is common among different peoples.

Gopnik attributes: cap, gold or silver chains, cheap signet, purse, Leather Jacket waist-high. Insolent behavior, especially in a community of similar people. He may begin to find fault with words and appearance if he sees a “sucker” or “not local.”

Once in the early 90s, I came out of the metro with a girl, stopped to buy champagne at a tent and chocolate candies, then walked towards the house. Apparently, at the tent I “shone the shovel.” On the way through the square, I felt that someone was following us. He abruptly grabbed a bottle of Sovetsky from the bag and turned around. Two pairs of frightened eyes of Gopniks of Caucasian origin looked at me, one had a knife. A second pause - and they ran away.

In English there is such a word as privacy*. In the Russian language there is something completely different - gopnik. The meanings of both are almost impossible to convey in one’s native language; it is generally useless to translate. But both words characterize some kind of...

Both of them, as is commonly believed, no longer exist. The concentrate of gopniks from the beginning of the century, according to legend, was destroyed by the Soviet government, with difficulty dissolving them into the mass of decent citizens. The same thing happened with the gopniks of the 90s, the bastards of the transition period - this is how stability under Vladimir Putin affected the stratum. But it would be stupid to say that in both cases the bullshit was over. Gopnik just disappeared into the crowd, changed into new clothes and got behind the wheel of another car. The masses, in turn, acquired some of his signs. Gopnichestvo itself has ceased to denote a narrow group of people; now it is a character trait of every person. And the key properties - lack of understanding of the boundaries of personal freedom, that is, privacy, hostility and even the lack of self-irony - are now inherent in everyone.

*Privacy- designation of privacy, personal freedoms of a person and their boundaries established by law.

Gopnik and Gopnik

The Gopnik of the 90s did not understand the meaning of the word “Gopnik”. The concept was used only outside the Gopnik layer. In this sense, G. were designated as a kind of closed subculture like punks, skinheads or goths. But unlike them, the G. did not assign any names to the rest of the population (among the punks and Goths, ordinary citizens were “civilians”). Moreover, G. did not recognize the difference between themselves and other people. Modern representatives of this stratum very often use the concept of G. in relation to newcomers, the unemployed, politically indifferent people, and persons without higher education. This is what Roman does, being a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. With G.'s inherent intolerance, Roman despises everyone who is like him.

Note:“redneck” has recently been used as a synonym for G.: “office redneck”, “redneck from the Caucasus”, “fashionable redneck”, etc.

Gopnik and privacy

Gopnik and clothes

Pointed shoes bought at the market, a tracksuit and a cap with a short visor are becoming a thing of the past. There are now shopping centers with European clothing in every district of Moscow and other million-plus cities. G. joined the casual style: casual jeans, shirt, sneakers. But at the same time, the element of bad taste has not gone away: modern G. fell in love with cheap chic and pretentiousness. An inexpensive T-shirt must have rhinestones, sneakers should have sparkles, preferably in a golden hue. Under the (specially) unbuttoned shirt, again with rhinestones, there is a thick chain. In the summer, instead of shorts, young G. wear jeans rolled up to the knees. And it is impossible to understand what the goal is being pursued here.

In general, any thing should give off pathos, this is fundamental - with a suit for 5 thousand rubles. Be sure to wear bright cufflinks. Clothes should not only look chic, they should shout about it. Hence G.'s painful desire to buy counterfeits of famous brands. Our Roman has a large golden plaque with the inscription Prada on his belt. In the passage on Pushkinskaya such a thing costs 700 rubles. (“The fashionable redneck” wears the original, but the badges are still the same - golden and huge.)

The Zara chain of stores is very popular among Roma. Despite the long lines, Roma has no favorite store. For 15 thousand rubles. there you can dress from head to toe. Moreover, the external features of the items are very similar to the assortment of more expensive brands. If you stick big Armani letters to some jeans, you won’t be able to tell them apart at all. Zara has been accused of piracy more than once. But how can you refuse such a wonderful niche?

Gopnik and non-Gopnik

Unlike his predecessor, modern G. strives to be like a non-gopnik. Roman communicates with a variety of people at work. But close contacts are difficult to achieve, which irritates Roma. His inability to joke and generally understand irony repels ordinary citizens. It is also impossible to convince Roma of anything. Like any G., Roma speaks out on any topic and does not recognize alternative opinions. So a dispute with Roma is considered an invasion of his privacy zone and, most likely, will end in an invasion of yours. In a conversation, he likes to touch his interlocutor with his hands, thereby emphasizing the idea. When you start talking, Roma will immediately get distracted by his own affairs, stare at the phone or turn on the radio.

Gopnik and power

Gopnik and patriotism

Gopnik and civic activism

Gopnik and the law

Gopnik and music

Still, it would be better if he listened to techno with chanson.

Gopnik and the church

One Christmas I met Roma with three canisters in front of the temple on Sretenka. Bypassing the service, he greedily loaded holy water into the trunk.

Verbatim

Masha Gaidar, leader of the youth organization “YES!”: For me this is synonymous with rudeness, impudence

Gopnik most likely had a difficult childhood. Problems in the family, difficulties with studies. He didn’t make it to university because he couldn’t and didn’t want to. Gopnik finds it difficult to communicate in the company of decent people, so he can only be seen in a circle of people like him.

Alexander Belov-Potkin, leader of the DPNI: A declassed element prone to committing crude, graceless crimes

In my understanding, a gopota is a declassed element prone to committing gross crimes devoid of grace. Globally, gopota as a phenomenon manifests itself in a period of economic instability, when a large number of primarily young people cannot realize themselves in life, are cut off from their family environment and lead an asocial lifestyle. By gathering in groups, they create a certain subculture. She is not a “classical” criminal, since the gopot lives according to quasi-concepts.

In modern Russia and Ukraine, gopniks, as a rule, come from urban formations in rural areas, that is, they are not peasants or city dwellers in the classical sense. Each of them individually can be a good person. However, due to the difficult situation in regional centers, the difficult financial situation of parents, average or low intellectual abilities, lack of work and other sources of livelihood, young people try to survive together, sometimes uniting in semi-criminal communities.

If you try to draw a portrait of an average gopnik, it will be a man under 25 years old, dressed in clothes bought at the “Vietnamese” market, smokes tobacco, is not averse to drinking and scoring a joint, may be the owner of a VAZ 2108 car, a fake Swiss watch , most likely, has short hair, listens to outdated pop music or chanson, tries to talk “for life”, his face has a characteristic “country tan”, he can gnaw on sunflower seeds. Gopnichestvo has no nationality and is common among different peoples.

Gopnik attributes: cap, gold or silver chains, cheap signet, man purse, waist-length leather jacket. Insolent behavior, especially in a community of similar people. He may begin to find fault with words and appearance if he sees a “sucker” or “not local.”

One day in the early 90s, I came out of the subway with a girl, stopped to buy champagne and chocolates at a tent, then walked towards the house. Apparently, at the tent I “shone the shovel.” On the way through the square, I felt that someone was following us. He abruptly grabbed a bottle of Sovetsky from the bag and turned around. Two pairs of frightened eyes of Gopniks of Caucasian origin looked at me, one had a knife. A second pause - and they ran away.

In contact with

Classmates

Back at the end of the 2000s, having toured the seedy outskirts of Moscow, reporters from a foreign magazine “sounded the alarm”: the famous gopniki had disappeared somewhere. Instead, the courtyard benches and park cafes are filled with peaceful inhabitants, and if anyone “goes wild” for no apparent reason and drives tuned Ladas, it’s the Caucasians.

And this spring, apparently missing the colorful 90s, some domestic enthusiasts proposed to immortalize Gopnik in stone in his “homeland” in St. Petersburg. Is this once powerful caste dying out and did it really give birth to it? cultural capital Russia? Anews decided to figure it out.

Revolution: before and after

About 100 years ago the word “Gopnik” could really only be heard in Petrograd. At first, this was the name given to ordinary homeless people and tramps, who before the revolution were occupied by the City (or State) Society of Charity (from the word “prizor”, not to be confused with “contempt”), abbreviated as GOP.

Classic wearers of sweatpants and caps from the 90s and 2000s have little in common with their pre-revolutionary “namesakes”:

These were representatives of the lower classes, but not necessarily bad guys and criminals. They begged and engaged in petty theft due to circumstances, inspiring pity rather than threat - in contrast to hooligans, whose habits were exactly reminiscent of a modern scumbag: they formed gangs, wandered around the streets, bullied passers-by, took things from them (the same bags with seeds) and extorted money, threatening to beat me.

However, after 1917, the “good old” gopniks were crowded out by the lumpenproletarians - essentially the same declassed elements, but thoroughly imbued with the idea of “taking everything away and dividing it up.” Having been replenished with these comrades, the layer of gopniks matures, becomes criminalized, and becomes actively dangerous.

If Bulgakov's Sharikov had lived not in Moscow, but in St. Petersburg, he would have completely passed for a typical post-revolutionary gopnik:

For some time the word remained purely St. Petersburg, but acquired a sharply negative connotation. Although the Soviet government abolished the charity society, two more places in Petrograd and Leningrad were called GOPs: the largest shelter on Mezhdunarodny (now Moskovsky) Avenue and the city hostel of the proletariat on Vosstaniya Square. Their inhabitants - Gopniks - no longer evoked disgusted pity, but hostility, ridicule and fear.

U modern fashion different, same faces:

After the war

Until Gopniks became a truly large-scale phenomenon, Soviet punks ruled the courtyards and districts. Accidentally driving into the wrong lane, often even during the day, any passer-by risked running into greyhound thugs ready to crush his sides just for being a “stranger.”

The street gangs were at odds and brutally beating each other. Some provincial cities became a real arena of military operations, where the only thing that could save you from a sudden attack by “enemies” was a walk with a girl. But the police did not deal with the punks, because they did without criminality and did not maintain strong ties with crime.

80s

Only in the 80s, with the flourishing of youth subcultures, gopniks were revived and established themselves in their lower classes. Representatives of different movements could conflict with each other, but everyone was united in contempt and hatred for the gopot, which was distinguished not by ideology, music or fashion, but by a stupid rejection of everything that is not “like everyone else.”

In those same years, the “informals” had more serious enemy- lyubera. Coming from a factory environment, who zealously pumped up their muscles in the basements of Lyubertsy near Moscow, crowds made forays into fashionable places in the capital and beat those who outraged them with their appearance and behavior.

Unlike gopniks, whom no one ever wanted to imitate, lyuberas with shaved heads, strong biceps and simple morals quickly gained popularity among residents of the city outskirts.

Luber winter fashion: wide plaid trousers, T-shirt with Stallone and fur hat.

The habit of instilling their concepts of “normality” with the help of fists involved basement bodybuilders in increasingly severe showdowns, and by the beginning of the 90s, many of them formed the backbone of well-known organized crime groups.

The founder of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Grigory Gusyatinsky (Grinya, far left) and Orekhovsky authority, USSR champion in powerlifting Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik, far right):

90s

If the former lyubers were promoted to crime bosses, then the gopniks of the 90s finally found something like ideals - a set of ideas about how “clean boys” should look and behave.

They have a great honor for the habits of gangster sixes and prison “romance”, because even the most shabby individual is allowed to rise in the eyes of his peers. Hence the favorite way of selecting “valuables” (money, cell phones, etc.) from passersby - gop-stop, and the tradition of squatting: also a tribute to the idols from the zone.

The gopnik fashion and lifestyle have become a favorite object of ridicule for everyone else, while the gopota itself - perhaps the only subculture - is absolutely devoid of self-irony.

Real gop couple in the subway:

Our days

IN last years Politicians have armed themselves with the offensive word “gopnik” and throw it like clods of dirt at their opponents and the “cattle crowd.” It goes either to Ukrainian figures, or to Putin’s entourage, or to Maidan activists, or to Russian jingoists. Now, it turns out, this “expletive” can now be awarded to any rabid in its “rightness” and aggressive groups.

But what about the classic gopniks - they went down in history along with the 2000s?

As it is written in the article, the appearance of Gopniks did not present any difficulties for the readers of the newspaper: these are these Russian guys of the “don’t put your finger in your mouth” type with pimply skin and dull faces, which reflect only one thought: “Yes, I put it on you!”

"These guys are more comfortable squatting than standing. But, most importantly, they are the last males on planet Earth who manage to wear leather gangster caps from the 1920s with style - everyone else in such caps looks only like fagots from theater school rehearsing some musical,” the newspaper writes.

Gopniks are cool because there is no place for self-irony in their world. They are very "authentic". Proof of this is their fantastically adventurous tastes: a mixture of bad taste, menace and garish Third World chic.

Even the fact that Gopniks like to blast techno at full blast, sing shitty karaoke songs in cheap cafes with color music, or wear cheap pointed leather boots to match their 1920s ragtime-style pillbox caps cannot take away their status as the most dangerous. scum in the world.

History of the word, Gopnik culture About the word: there are few terms that one hundred percent correspond to the designated object. "Gop" sounds angry, stupid and funny, but not so funny that you dare to laugh in the face of a gopnik. The word "Gopnik" is based on the abbreviation: "State hostel of the proletariat." Add to "G.O.P." the suffix “nick” – and the new biological species is ready.

Gopniks appeared after the revolution. The first gopniks came to Petrograd in the 1920s in search of work. By origin, they were peasants or completely landless scum.

The species "common gopnik" even had its own specific habitat - Ligovsky Prospekt, building 10. Actually, this is a hotel, now called "Oktyabrskaya", and the gopniks, in their own way, turned it into a collectivist gangster club, the publication writes.

Since they were outsiders in their villages, often children from single-parent families, and many already had petty crimes on their record, if not something worse, indigenous people Petrograd, and then Leningrad, were disgusted with Gopniks.

They went down in legends as thugs and lucky ones, whom even the Soviet system could not break. They had their own code of honor, they lived by their own rules, they had their own tattoos on their fingers, their own fashions. They represented something like a caste of “thieves in law” in the world of delinquent “hooligans”.

Later, the meaning of the word changed, and the expression “gopnik” meant any dubious type with a shaved head, wearing a thick leather jacket, stupid leather boots and a pillbox cap.

1990s - the rise of Gopniks

In the 1990s, it seemed that Gopniks would soon take over, if not the whole world, then at least one-sixth of the land. "Gopniks ruled the roost in all 11 time zones of Russia. "Gopniks - or Russian men, who adopted the style of Gopniks, surged into all spheres of life, from “business”, where they played the role of sixes, to politics, where, as deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, they formed the core of the resistance Western influence", the newspaper writes.

Some gopniks exchanged leather jackets and sweatshirts for brown blazers from Hugo Boss, but could not resist complementing this splendor with shiny mules: gold chains on their hands and necks, fancy watches and so on. The Gopnik culture in the 90s was accompanied by techno music. However, the 1990s turned out to be not so much the rise of the Gopnik Nation as the Beginning of its End.

Have Gopniks survived to this day?

To explore the culture of modern Gopniks, the newspaper's correspondents went to Lyubertsy, a city that in the 1990s was known as the capital of Gopniks. Criminality was as common there as tracksuits and sunflower seeds. Imagine the surprise of the journalists when they could not find any gopniks there. Then the representatives of the newspaper decided to go to one of the most sinister areas of Moscow, Brateevo, but they didn’t find any gopniks there either.

What happened to the Gopniks? Most sources agree that two factors contributed to their extinction. First: in the 1980s and 1990s, hard drugs and weapons suddenly became widely available.

Their introduction into such a fearless and primitive culture as the Gopnik culture meant that in one decade almost half of the individuals left for another world.

"The second reason has more to do with changes in the environment. The advent of Western bourgeois values and cultural preferences, as well as the beginning of a period of external stability, growth and sobriety under Putin, means that Gopnik's 70-year reign as the king of the world of rebels has suddenly come to an end: Russians of all social classes layers quickly hated the dork aesthetics of the Gopniks,” the newspaper writes.

Nothing speaks more eloquently about the tragic disappearance of Gopnik from the face of the earth than the fact that Shnur is from the Leningrad group, big fan Gopnik culture, is going to open the “Gopnik Museum” in his native St. Petersburg, the newspaper notes.

Shnur's group romanticizes the Gopniks to a middle-class audience that has finally come to appreciate them, albeit in a semi-ironic spirit that would not have been possible if the Gopniks had not disappeared. Even the original cradle of Gopniks - house 10 on Ligovsky Prospekt - today is nothing more than a three-star hotel.

Anatomy of a Gopnik

A pillbox cap is a key element of a Gopnik’s outfit. Leather ones are for serious murders, stripes are for all sorts of trifles like rape in the country.

Ears - usually protrude more than those of ordinary homo sapiens, thanks to fights, as well as the inevitable haircut to zero.

Shashlik - Gopniks (like all Russians) believe that meat tastes best when it is roasted on a stick over a fire.

Sweatpants still remain the most ergodynamic for squatting.

Shoes - Gopniks prefer a) pointed leather boots or b) slippers, but as they assimilate culturally, they sometimes wear sneakers.

Glass - everyone knows that vodka tastes best when it is served warm in a glass. plastic cups. It is very important that several midges float on its surface.

Jacket - If he had a bumper sticker, it would say "Don't think I have a leather jacket."

Forehead - convex frontal lobes are inherited from distant ancestors - humans.

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February 2nd, 2017 , 05:56 pm

Incredible, but true: in recent years, Russian folk gop culture has been gaining momentum and becoming more and more popular in the West. Young people learn to wear “clean” sneakers, tracksuits, sit correctly on the courts and dance to Hardbass. How did this happen? Let's try to figure it out:

Rave culture
What is this “smooth Slavic boy” who is so attractive to Western youth? He wears comfortable "clean" clothes, speaks sharply and casually, has short hair and always attends raves. Hours of energetic dancing (rave) originated in the UK back in the late 80s and instantly gained popularity in the youth underground. The quickly formed idea of the movement was summed up in four letters - PLUR (peace, love, unity and respect).

Rave culture reached Russia in the early 90s, but its heyday came from cult musical performers like The Prodigy, Scooter, Grid and The Shamen. Thematic festivals were held in the country, including the sensational Gagarin Party and KaZantip.

One time, this is Hardbass

The specific mentality of post-Soviet youth quickly led to the deformation of the PLUR idea under the influence of boyish concepts and Adidas tracksuits. This could not but irritate those who understood the origins of the rave movement. Thanks to their efforts, by the end of the 2000s, a completely new and in its own unique way appeared in Russia. musical movement Hardbass. It initially ridiculed rave gopniks who did not promote the ideas of peace, love, unity and respect.

The leitmotif of Hardbass culture was the track of the same name, based on the electronic composition "Kickin" Hard by popular Dutch DJs Klubbheads. For the first time, a video with a dance called "Sausage School" appeared on YouTube in May 2010. In the video, four young St. Petersburg residents parody the ridiculous movements of rave gopniks to accompaniment of Hardbass and claim that “butyrates and speeds are worst enemies» all adherents of St. Petersburg intelligent culture.

The video quickly gained popularity, and the movement gained followers. Among them were “even boys” who did not understand irony and posted their versions of the viral dance in the thousands on YouTube. As a result, “School of Sausage” and Hardbass turned into Internet memes that went beyond the Russian segment of the network.

In 2011, fans of the movement appeared in Ukraine and the Balkans.

True, unlike the founders of Hardbass, young people did not support the meme ridiculing the gopniks and turned the dance into a symbol of the nationalist movement. From the speakers of the Ukrainians, completely different texts sounded like “We bring Hardbass to your house, one-four, eight-eight.”

And a couple of years later, again thanks to YouTube, Hardbass began to be danced in the rest of Europe. Moreover, in youth slang the phrase Cheeki Breeki appeared, which was firmly associated with Russian “folk” dances to electronic music. The Ukrainian language played a significant role in the development of phraseological units. computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R., where those prowling nearby Chernobyl zone Alienation, the bandits dreamed of getting rich overnight using the “Chicky-bricky - and kings” method that became a meme.

Smooth Slavic boys

Impressed by the energetic dances of the “even boys” in tracksuits, European youth began to explore an unknown subculture. As you know, demand creates supply, and guru-experts immediately appeared on YouTube, speaking in broken English about the peculiarities of the life and everyday life of the Slavic gopnik.

Having heard the stories of Boris and his associates, Western youth began to imitate Russian gopniks: sitting on the courts, popping sunflower seeds and wearing tracksuits, casually muttering Cheeki Breeki from time to time. Most of all, the residents were predictably imbued with the “clear” subculture of Eastern Europe, spontaneously gathering on the streets of cities and arranging mad dances.

“Can you play the guitar?”

Gopnik culture influenced not only appearance youth, but also on the work of European musicians. Inspired by Hardbass, young performers began recording full albums with “Slavic” compositions, mercilessly distorting English pronunciation. YouTube is flooded with clips of musicians dressed in sweatpants posing as so-called “white trash.”

The rapper's love for Russia is due to close communication with the St. Petersburg rave group Little Big, which received worldwide recognition for ridiculing stereotypes about Russian people, including the image of the Gopnik.

Boomerang

Using the example of Little Big, it can be clearly seen how the renewed subculture of “even boys” that took over Europe returned to their native St. Petersburg. The group’s work contains echoes of the same Hardbass that they danced in the city on the Neva five years ago.

Despite the fact that in Russia the fashion for Hardbass died out back in 2013, and modern gopniks and they forgot to think about rave festivals, their business not only lives on, but also captures the minds of the inhabitants of the “decaying West” that they so hate. Young people who recently changed en masse skinny jeans on plaid shirts and growing beards, they sit down with delight on the slav squat and chant the treasured Cheeki Breeki.

Courts
Photos of people squatting and wearing tracksuits have recently overtaken photos with duck lips in popularity in Germany. Even local media became interested in this phenomenon, called “Russian squats”.
The Berliner Kurier newspaper conducted a study and interviewed journalists, artists and photographers and concluded that the pose of a chav has ceased to be indecent and has become socially acceptable.

The hashtag #russenhocke is now very popular on German-speaking Twitter and Instagram. There are even video tutorials on the Internet that tell you how to properly take photographs while squatting.
This news is almost a year old, but, as can be seen from the link on Instagram, the corresponding photos are still appearing.