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7 ph glass tumbler

"And immediately drank»
Venedikt Yerofeyev

No, I still live in Soviet times was incomparably more fun! First, because we have while much younger. And secondly, in those years, many professional ponapridumali holidays. Gala has become almost every weekend. Whatever Sunday, an occasion for fun.

But the fun is! Who saw Metallurgist Day, for example, in Cherepovets or Miner's Day in Donetsk, remember.

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Soviet people liked to have fun. Before pleased that the workers themselves began to invent new reasons for filling the cup. It was then that the vast motherland wondrous born glorious holiday - the Day of faceted glass.

Who introduced it into practice, is unknown. Similarly, not the Politburo. But the celebration with the same name could not settle down. He caught on. Moreover, there was a serious risk of fraud. Everyone strove to announce the Day of glass tumbler any convenient date for personal drinking. Here it had its say scientists.

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Scientists digging in their Wikipedia, authoritatively declare the following. Happy Birthday faceted glass is considered to be September 11, 1943. This - the date of issue of the first Soviet faceted glass in the glass factory in the town of Gus-Crystal. Traditionally, the author of the Soviet faceted glass is considered to be the sculptor VI Mukhina (1889 - 1953), to which documentary evidence is not available. But the fact that the author of the sketch of the famous sculptural group "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" was made by the Soviet glass beer mug - a proven fact.

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If we are talking about beer. The fate of the Soviet faceted glass similar to the fate of the Soviet "Zhiguli" beers. The first "Zhigulevskoe" beer was brewed in Samara before 1917 and was then called "Vienna." Its release is resumed in 1934, when it became necessary to provide the Soviet people with beer. However, changing the name to the less bourgeois.

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Similarly, the first cut-glass tumbler glass was said to have made during the time of Peter I in the same factory in Gus-Crystal. And the king was presented as an unbreakable glassware for drinking alcoholic beverages. Peter "immediately drank" (sm.epigraf) then tried a glass of strength, hryastnuv him on the floor with all his strength. Glass is naturally broken than somehow caused emotion emperor allowed this very dish to widespread use. Moreover, in his opinion, faceted glass does not jump out of your hands while pitching on ships.

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In general, before the October Revolution of glass cut-glass tumblers in Russian homes were carried out. As evidenced by the glorious expressionist painting Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939).

Apparently, the pre-revolutionary reserves exhausted by 1943. However, as sung in the song of Vladimir Vysotsky, "there is another assumption." Faceted glass began to produce in connection with the release of dishwashing units for dining rooms. These glasses have been better to stay in the cells of special boxes. Again, despite the bad result of the experiment conducted by Peter I, faceted glass, made of thick glass, yet stronger than fine of rough. If you fall to the floor often survived faceted why enterprises are registered in the Soviet public catering and rail transportation. Tea was served in trains in faceted glass with a cup holder.

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Obschepitovskie glasses were not zapadlo pull. It is sung on the radio: "All around the collective, all around me." So they have become favorite dishes to drink "for three." Moreover, the glass up to the rim of the glass was placed in exactly 167 grams of vodka - one-third of a half-liter bottle. And here too to the national holiday "Day of faceted glass" on the doorstep!

Yes, one more scientific information. The number of faces on the glass - 16 or 17. In the late Soviet period there were more elegant glasses, icosahedral.

All the holiday!

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