The dance floor (abbreviated dance floor ) - so in Soviet times, as a rule, the place where discos and evenings were held was called.
Typically, the dance floor was a small piece of land enclosed by a fence , inside there could be a small stage on which the equipment was located. Depending on the popularity of the dance floor, VIA or instrumental ensembles could perform on the stage, but in most cases phonograms sounded on the dance floors.
In Soviet times , open- air dance floors were very popular among young people , because there were not so many alternatives for recreation . The dance floor hours were mostly in the range of 18 to 23 hours . The order at most dance venues watched employees DND .
About how great was the popularity of the dance floor, you can understand from the film directed by Samson Samsonov "Dance floor" , which was filmed in 1985 at Mosfilm .
Often the dance halls were located in the parks on the ground cemeteries eliminated in the Soviet era. For example, in the Children's Park. F. Dzerzhinsky in Moscow from 1936 (formerly Lazarevskoye cemetery, fences and crosses near the site remained until 1953), in Komsomolsk park in Vladivostok, in the park named after A.S. Pushkin (near the Assumption Cathedral) and the square near the square. Victory (formerly Yamskoye Cemetery) in Vladimir, in the Melangeist Garden ("The Garden of the Living and the Dead", formerly the Assumption Cemetery until the 1930s) in Ivanovo, in the Summer Park in the town of Puchezh, Ivanovo Region, near Voznesenskaya Church in Kadom of the Ryazan region, in the Kopli park in Tallinn, in the former Jerusalem cemetery in Irkutsk, etc. In the 1990s. usually at the request of the public, such dance floors were closed down or transferred.