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Humanitarian sciences in Siberia

2014 year, number

LEISURE ACTIVITIES OF URBAN SOCIETY IN 1964-1985 (ON THE TYUMEN MATERIALS)

D.A. Fyodorova
Tyumen State University (TSU), Russia, 625000, Tyumen, Semakova str., 8
Keywords: urban everyday life, cultural and leisure environment, leisure activities, leisure practices, individualization of consciousness, way of life

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the process of urban society development as exemplified by leisure practices of Tyumen citizens in 1964-1985 within anthropologically oriented approach. The work is based on archival sources, statistical materials, periodical press, as well as on recollections. The author describes evolution of the urbanites’ leisure activities in Tyumen, notes their growing interest towards mass media, new opportunities for travel. Moreover, in 1964-1985 residents of Tyumen had peculiar perception of the urban sphere of leisure, that was often associated with the phenomenon of provincialism in Tyumen and underdeveloped spheres of culture and leisure activities. As a rule, the city-dwellers demanded from this spheres much more than in the previous decades. The author comes to the conclusion that a wider range of leisure activities of Tyumen residents was connected with the important changes in the socio-economic sphere: people had more time out of duty; their material well-being and educational level increased; the material recourse base of cultural institutes improved. Leisure activities of people in Tyumen were strongly connected with changes in mass consciousness which was formed on a basis of new comparative associations and rapid development of the city as a large administrative and intellectual center of the West Siberian Oil and Gas Complex. All this triggered formation of a new type of personality which is potentially capable to master the diversity of the world and can become a part of a complex system of public relations.