Spending a weekend or taking a vacation at a dacha, or Russian country house, is known as an excellent recreational pastime for all those wanting to reconnect with nature.
Spending a weekend or taking a vacation at a dacha, or Russian country house, is known as an excellent recreational pastime for all those wanting to reconnect with nature. Photo: People’s Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov at his dacha outside Moscow.
Dachas are usually located outside cities, in villages or dacha communities.
Actress Rina Zelyonaya, left, and Serafima Birman, right, and poet and author Kornei Chukovsky, center, at the “Welcome Summer!” festival at Chukovsky’s dacha in Peredelkino, outside Moscow.
The countryside atmosphere and comfort allows for spending time with family members, friends and relatives, having barbecues, sunbathing, doing sports or simply enjoying the open air.
The first dachas are believed to have appeared in the early 18th century, during the reign of Peter the Great. These were country estates granted by the tsar to his vassals for their services to the state.
Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and his family at their dacha.
Nikolai Klimovich, a worker at the Minsk Refrigerator Plant, at his dacha with his family.
Taking a vacation at a dacha.
A woman is seen near a house in the dacha community of the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant.
A tea party at the dacha community for employees of Moscow’s Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant.
Soviet aircraft designer and academic Andrei Tupolev, right, and his granddaughter at his dacha.
Kids enjoy themselves at a dacha near Zvenigorod, outside Moscow.
