Abstract
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Highlights
The article is devoted to the analysis of several key concepts of texts on construction and the first years of Uralmashzavod work (1930s, 1960s-1970s)
Real events for Lev Ovalov are only a basis that must be “rewritten” in an ideologically correct way: Ovalov’s hero of the novel sees her husband off to China but she herself stays at home not wanting to change the life of a “full-fledged person” to the poor role of a “husband’s wife”
Uralmash people, love our Uralmash because we live here, because our house is here, but we love it for the fact that our Uralmash is really a nice, beautiful and cosy place” ([4], 35)
Summary
Mikhail Prishvin (1873-1954) visited Sverdlovsk and Uralmashstroy in January and February of 1931, being “twice a stranger” both to the place and to the process of industrialization His hard impression of what he had seen was exacerbated by his reflections and rejection of new practices of life construction: his trip coincides with his son’s short marriage, where the new formats of younger generation’s relations (which are free from the previous cultural “conventions”) cause the writer’s bitter bewilderment A bright picture from the past is superimposed on the non-existent at that time topography of the settlement (Ordzhonikidze Street and kiosks) Prishvin records his movements in space and in time: “We walked in the place where one engineer had lost his way in the forest last year. Here some forgotten trees (what is left from the whole forest) stick out among the city...” ([11], 01.03.1931)
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