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This is an English language textbook for third graders. It was released in 1953, so it contains a lot of characteristic features of that time. Take a look!这是一本三年级学生的英语教材。教材发布于1953年，包含了许多当时的时代特色。让我们看看吧！
First of all, it reflects the fact that some schools practiced separate education for boys and girls, which was introduced in 1943 in Moscow, Leningrad and some other big cities of the USSR. On the whole, the reform affected just 2% of the schools of the USSR.
In the picture: boys’ class.
首先，教材表明当时城市中的一些学校是男女分开教学的，这种教学实践是苏联（USSR）在1943年引入到如莫斯科、列宁格勒和其他一些这类的大城市。总的来说，整个改革只影响到了苏联2%的学校。
图中：男生教室。
‘Comparing the two systems of education, it should be noted that separate education has no advantages in terms of pedagogical process, however there are difficulties in behavioral aspects’. So, in 1954-1955 they brought the combined education system back.
In the picture: girls’ class.
“对比这两种教育体系，我们必须注意到隔离教学在教育过程中并没有优势，但是在整个行为方面却存在困难。”因此，在1954-1955年苏联重新推行联合教学。
图中：女生教室
Girls and boys met only in the House of Pioneers.
男孩女孩们只有在先锋队办公室才会聚在一起。
The textbook shows the school uniform they wore back then.
In the picture: girls’ uniform.
教材展示了学生当时所穿的校服。
图中：女生校服
This kind of school uniform has been in use up to 1962.
In the picture: boys’ uniform.
这种形式的校服一直使用到1962年。
图中：男生校服
These are some variants of boys’ everyday outfit.这些是男生日常工具套件的部分。
The textbook also shows everyday life of the Soviet citizens living in the 50s.
教材同样展现了50年代苏联公民的日常生活。
You will find no picture of a kitchen in this textbook, so apparently these interiors are rooms in communal flats.
在这本教材中你找不到厨房的照片，显然这些内部房间都位于集体公寓。
But there are plenty of pictures of stoves. Pretty exotic for today’s city life.但是教材中有许多炉灶的图片。对于今天的城市生活来说这是十分有异国情调的物件。
New Year.
新年。
This bus looks more like a tram… who knows.
公交车看起来更像有轨电车...谁知道呢。
Another bus going along a street in Leningrad.
在列宁格勒街道上运行的公交汽车。
They depict trams going along Nevsky Avenue which is strange because the tram road was removed from there in 1950-1951.
涅夫斯基大街上运行的有轨电车，但这是十分奇怪的，因为在1950-1951年电车轨道就已经被移除了。
Pioneer girls are marching somewhere in Leningrad too.
少先队的女孩们在列宁格勒的某处游行。
Of course, no book could do without Great Leader Comrade Stalin.
当然，必不可少的伟大领袖斯大林。
