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Palace of Culture was the name for major club-houses in the former Soviet Union. The Soviet meaning for the term "club" was an establishment for all kinds of recreational activities and hobbies: sports, collecting, arts, etc., and the Palace of Culture was designed to have room for all kinds of them. A typical Palace contained one or several cinema halls, concert hall(s), dance studios (folk dance, ballet, ballroom dance), various do-it-yourself hobby groups, radio amateur groups, amateur theatre studios, amateur musical studios and bands, lectoriums (lecture halls), and many more. Groups were also subdivided by age of participants, from children to retirees. A club (in Greek usually: Mupia, in Latin sodalitas) consists of an association of people not united together by any natural ties of kinship, real or supposed. ...
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All these were supposed to aid "cultural leisure" of Soviet workers and children and to fight "cultureless leisure", such as drinking and hooliganism. All hobby groups were free of charge until most recent times, when many hobbies with less official recognition were housed basing on "self-repayment". Drinking is the act of consuming a liquid through the mouth. ...
Ultras at FC Twente - SC Heerenveen in 2002 Hooliganism is unruly and destructive behaviour, usually by gangs of young people. ...
There were two basic categories of Palaces of Culture: of state ownership and of enterprise ownership. Every town, kolkhoz and sovkhoz had a central Palace or House of Culture. Major industrial enterprises had their own Palaces of Culture, managed by the corresponding trade unions. A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ...
Enterprise can refer to any of the following: A business or organization. ...
A kolkhoz (Russian: колхо́з) was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms or sovkhozes. ...
A sovkhoz (Russian language: Совхоз, Советское хозяйство, sovetskoe khoziaistvo), typically translated as state farm, is a Soviet state-owned farm, in contrast with kolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. ...
Palaces of Culture served another important purpose: they housed local congresses and conferences of the regional divisions of the Communist Party. For other usage of the initials CPSU see CPSU (disambiguation). ...
In smaller rural settlements similar establishments of lesser scope were known as "clubs", with main activities there being dance nights and cinema.
In 1988 there were over 137,000 club establishments in the Soviet Union.
Post-Soviet times
Most Palaces of Culture continue to exist after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but their status, especially the financial one, changed significantly, for various reasons. The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ...
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