Who are the "gopniks": history and anatomy. Gopniks - subculture: description and causes of occurrence Who are the gopniks: appearance

In the 1990s, it seemed that the “gopniks” would take over, if not the whole world, then at least one sixth of the land.

"Gopniks" ruled the roost in all of Russia's 11 time zones. Gopniks - or Russian men who adopted the style of gopniks - flooded into all areas of life, from "business", where they played the role of infantry, to politics, where they formed the core of resistance to Western influence …

Gopnik - (a normal kid, goper, gopar, gop, gopota, punks, gopson) in post-revolutionary Petrograd - a resident of the City Hostel of the Proletariat (the current Oktyabrskaya Hotel, according to contemporaries, they all walked in red socks and were identified by them, from there it went ) - the lowest multicellular, infantry from the criminal world, but in fact - punks, a petty street criminal whose main hobby is squeezing money and mobile phones from passers-by, and of course, kicking emo and other representatives of less aggressive subcultures.

The appearance of the gopniks is typical and predictable: Russian guys like "don't put your finger in your mouth" with stupid faces, on which only one thought is reflected: "yes, I put it on you!"

These guys are more comfortable squatting than standing. But, most importantly, these are the last males on planet Earth who manage to wear 1920s gangster caps with chic, everyone else in such caps looks like nothing more than faggots from theater school rehearsing some musical.

Gopniks are cool because there is no place for self-irony in their world. They are very "authentic". Proof of this is their fantastically daring tastes: a mixture of bad taste, menace and inherent "third world" noisy chic. Even the fact that gopniks like to play techno to the fullest, sing karaoke songs in cheap cafes with color music, or wear cheap pointed leather shoes to match their pillbox caps in the 1920s ragtime style, cannot take away their status as the most dangerous scumbags. in the world.

The history of the word, the culture of gopniks. About the word. There are few terms that one hundred percent correspond to the designated object. "Gop" sounds vicious, stupid and funny, but not so funny that you dare to laugh in the face of a gopnik. The word "gopnik" is based on the abbreviation: "State hostel of the proletariat." Add to "G.O.P." suffix "nick" - and the new biological species is ready. There were gopniks after the revolution. The first gopniks came to Petrograd in the 1920s in search of work. By origin, they were peasants or completely landless erratic barren.

The species "ordinary gopnik" even had its own specific habitat - Ligovsky Prospekt, building 10. Actually, this is a hotel, now called "Oktyabrskaya", and the gopniks in their own way turned into a collectivist gangster club. Since they were outsiders in their own villages, often children from single-parent families, and many already had petty crimes on their account, if not worse, indigenous people Petrograd, and then Leningrad, treated the gopniks with disgust.

They entered the legends as blatari and lucky, which even the Soviet system could not break. They had their own code of honor, they lived by their own rules, they had their own tattoos on their fingers, their own fashions. They represented something like a caste of "thieves in law" in the world of delinquent "hooligans". Later, the meaning of the word changed, and the expression "gopnik" meant any dubious type with a shaved head, a thick leather jacket, stupid leather boots and a pillbox cap.

Some gopniks have swapped leather jackets and sweatshirts for Hugo Boss brown blazers, but couldn't resist adding glittery mules to this splendor: gold chains around the arms and neck, heaped watches and more. Gopnik culture in the 90s was accompanied by techno music. However, the 1990s turned out to be not so much the rise of the Gopnik Nation as the Beginning of its End.

Have the gopniks survived to this day?
Most sources agree that two factors contributed to their practical extinction. First, in the 1980s and 1990s, hard drugs and guns suddenly became ubiquitous.
Their incorporation into a culture as fearless and primitive as gopnic meant that in one decade, almost half of the individuals went to the other world.

The second reason has more to do with environmental changes. The arrival of Western bourgeois values and cultural preferences, as well as the beginning of a period of outward stability, growth and sobriety under Putin, means that the 70-year reign of the gopnik as the king of the world of rebels has come to an abrupt end: Russians of all social strata have quickly come to hate the gopnik’s dork aesthetic.

Nothing speaks so eloquently about the tragic disappearance of a gopnik from the face of the earth as the fact that Shnur from the Leningrad group, a big fan of gopnik culture, is going to open (perhaps already opened, I don’t know) in his native St. Petersburg "Gopnik Museum". Shnur's group romanticizes the gopniks in front of a middle-class audience that finally appreciates them, albeit in a semi-ironic spirit that wouldn't be possible if the gopniks hadn't disappeared. Even the original cradle of gopniks - house 10 on Ligovsky Prospekt - today is nothing more than a three-star hotel.

Gopnik's anatomy. The pillbox cap is a key element of the gopnik outfit. Leather - for serious murders, stripes - for all sorts of trifles. Ears - usually stick out more than the average Homo sapiens, thanks to fights, as well as an indispensable haircut to zero. Shish kebab - gopniks (like all Russians) believe that meat tastes best when it is fried on a stick over a fire. Sweatpants still remain the most ergodynamic for squatting.

Shoes. Gopniks prefer - a) pointed leather boots or b) slippers, but as cultural assimilation sometimes wear sneakers. Glass - Everyone knows that vodka tastes best when served warm in plastic cups. It is very important that several midges float on its surface. Leather jacket, alternatively an olympic jacket. Forehead - convex frontal lobes are inherited from distant ancestors - people.

Gopnik guide different countries

Traveling abroad, Russian tourists sometimes decide that in other countries there are exceptionally intelligent, friendly, stylishly dressed law-abiding citizens. Have you seen gopniks in Japan? Not? In fact, you only missed them because you didn't know what they looked like. From this material you will learn who to be afraid of or, on the contrary, next to whom you can squat down and talk about life abroad ...

Let's start with the classics.

"Chav" comes from the gypsy word "shavvi", which means "child". As a rule, these are representatives of dysfunctional families who live on unemployment benefits. Because of this, they become objects of contempt: the British complain that idlers live on their taxes, without benefiting society. In clothing, Chavs prefer a sporty style, although they are rarely seen playing sports.
Chavetta girls wear tight T-shirts with famous brand logos, tight jeans or short skirts, ugg boots or sneakers, but they are especially distinguished by their hairstyles: bleached hair with regrown roots is pulled into a tight ponytail, and their ears are decorated with large ring-shaped earrings. Chavettas generally love shiny jewelry that imitates gold. Both men and women rarely let a can of beer and a cigarette out of their hands, so they can be safely reckoned among the details of the wardrobe.
From music, Chavs prefer hip-hop and R&B, despite the fact that they do not shun everyday racism. Chavs are very fond of cars, but are not patient enough (or too adventurous) to save up enough money to buy a nice car. They prefer to take a heavily used one and spend time and money on tuning it. They communicate in characteristic slang with a strong accent, the vocabulary is rich in swear words.

The Irish word "knacker", in addition to the local equivalent of "knacker", is also used to describe a person who buys old or sick cattle in order to kill them and sell the meat. It can be assumed that the offensive connotation extends to all its meanings. Other than that, Irish Neckers are not much different from British Chavs - the same look and lifestyle. The abbreviation "ned" stands for "non-educated delinquent", translated from English - "uneducated criminal". They differ from English chavs mainly in their accent and predilection for fake Burberry caps. Hashish is often smoked, which is crushed and rolled into cigarettes. This habit is so widespread that a special word was needed for holes in clothes burned by the ashes of cigarettes with pieces of hash - "bommers".

The appearance of bogans is radically different from the style of other gopniks: they wear flannel shirts, black jeans or leggings, black wool sweaters and ugg boots. Bogans drive around in used Holden Commodores or Ford Falcons. Unlike other gopniks of the world, bogans wear long hair or, at worst, long bangs.
It cannot be said that they are extremely aggressive or trying to "squeeze out the mobile", but in the minds of Australians, bogans take the place of uneducated, immoral elements of society. Bogans gather in pubs, where they watch Australian football with adoration and occasionally get into fights. Bogan girls are considered much more aggressive and uncontrollable. They pass the time walking through malls and supermarkets with a bottle of beer, constantly yelling at and bullying other women.

In different autonomies of Spain, the subculture of the youth of the working class is called differently. The common name is cani, but in reality there are more than two dozen of them: surmanito and willy in Seville, burraco in Malaga, doncho in Granada, garrullo in Catalonia, ueso in Almeria, maca in Extremadura, pokero in Madrid and many other names in different autonomies, cities and villages. If we talk about the style of clothing, it all depends on the capabilities of each individual canine. If a cani has an El Niño down jacket, then he will not take it off even in August. Under the down jacket must be a tracksuit. If the guy has a relief torso, then it will be possible to force him to wear a T-shirt only before Christmas. Both of them adore sunglasses and wear them, regardless of the season and the amount of sunlight.
The same goes for baseball caps. IN public transport they like to turn on music from a mobile phone, more often flamenco, raggaton or bacalao - a local subspecies of club music. Of course, in public transport you can meet only those who do not have their own vehicle. As a rule, this is a Yamaha Jog-R scooter with a replaced muffler - the factory one is too quiet. It is considered a special chic to replace as many parts of the scooter as possible so that it can go faster and make more noise.

Nyero (also known as turro in Argentina, nado in Mexico and tukki in Venezuela) differ from kani primarily in their hairstyle - on the South American continent, mullets (or “sevens”, as the Colombians call them) are still held in high esteem. According to local testimonies, the highest concentration of niero is observed in the city of Medellin, which in last years strengthens its status as the capital of the drug trade.
El Zarco, the hero of the novel of the same name by the Mexican writer Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and the film based on it, was chosen as an example to follow. El Zarco is the leader of a criminal group, young and handsome, but aggressive and merciless. Like the kani, the nyero uniforms are fake Nike, Puma and Adidas tracksuits. Sometimes it is supplemented with amulets or images that are hung around the neck, and a dog that sits at the feet. The angrier and bigger the dog, the better. Often they shoot at passers-by a cigarette, half a bill and a telephone. They listen to the usual Latin American pop, sometimes Latin American hip-hop.
In addition to petty theft and distribution of drugs, sometimes they earn a living very in an unusual way: sell sweets on buses, inventing their own tragic story or borrowing it from a telenovela (the wife of my father's twin brother killed him, the family was left without a breadwinner). Older Nyoros work as driver assistants, sit on a side stool and collect money from passengers, while the older ones become drivers and decorate their workplace with icons, flags and key rings. In their free time, Nero like to play mini-football, always bare-chested, taking a picture of themselves on a mobile phone, like ordinary Russian chicks.

Rakai stand out from the crowd with a Lacoste tracksuit (sometimes Sergio Tacchini or Airness) and a habit of tucking their pants into their socks. A waist bag (also Lacoste) is worn over the tracksuit, and a mobile phone hangs on a cord around the neck. Like the Spaniards, French gopniks like to listen to music in public places without using headphones, but their playlist is somewhat different: they prefer hip-hop, R&B and the forgotten tectonics.
Rakai move on mopeds, which allows some of them to deftly snatch bags from the hands of passers-by while riding. A special area of rakai is RER commuter trains. They are similar to our metro, only the carriages are double-decker and very dirty, and the stations are longer. There they gather in huge groups of 15-20 people, pinch the girls, run into the whole company on some frail Frenchman to take away money or a phone, swing on the handrails and spit on the floor.

In Japan, "Yankees" are not called Americans, as in the rest of the world, but Japanese working-class youth with anti-social habits. They are often spoken of as future members of the yakuza, but the Yankees are much more harmless and of crimes are limited to petty theft, disorderly conduct, vandalism and fights. The Yankees could get along well with simple Russian boys: both of them prefer to communicate while sitting “on the courts”.

The word "dres" appeared in the 1990s thanks to the tracksuits (dres) that flooded the markets. It is assumed that earlier no one united the dresses into a single subculture and they were simply called hooligans or criminals. Habitat - sleeping areas of large cities, as well as ours built up with multi-storey buildings. Therefore, sometimes the dresses proudly call themselves blokersi, that is, "boys from the district." A self-respecting dress always has a pseudo-golden chain with a cross around its neck. Hairdressers do not look into barbershops, but prefer to shave baldly with the help of friends or style their hair back, pouring plenty of gel on their heads. Of the cars, Germans are preferred, basically only old Volkswagen, Opel, Audi can afford. Rising karki (neck, bull neck, brothers) ride used BMWs. Very young, without experience of street robberies are forced to travel by bus. It also has its own culture: dresses, regardless of the number of brothers, occupy the last six places.
Those who are not supposed to sit on the level hang on the handrails, rock the bus and stick to the townspeople. Sometimes, if there is a particularly grouchy grandfather, they can give him a place. In general, elderly people are outside the concept of suckers, so they are not beaten and not “thrown on a mobile phone”. What is interesting, the dress, unlike our thin gopniks, attend rocking chairs. Fighting breed dogs (Staffordshire terriers and pit bulls) are also often bred.

If in urban areas the honor of gopniks is defended by well-known black gangstas, then in the provinces for all the trash there is broad concept"white trash". As early as the 19th century, “white trash” began to be called poor white workers who, along with black slaves, harvested crops on plantations. Now white trash is called poorly educated poor Americans, whose behavior does not fit into the framework of generally accepted morality. Although outwardly they do not look like gopniks from other countries, they are perceived precisely as declassed elements.

The most common image of white trash is a white man who lives in a trailer or at least drives a pickup truck, has his own gun, wears a mullet haircut, and has many tattoos on his body made at home by his buddies. If he does work, he earns very little, and immediately spends the money received on a “new telly” instead of food for children, and more often he simply receives unemployment benefits. He enjoys visiting the "village club", where he will definitely arrange a fight. The habitat is all over the country, but the highest concentration of such people is in the south. It is distinguished by zealous patriotism and interethnic hatred.

In small towns, gangs of young people are often formed, which can also be attributed to white trash. In each settlement, there are usually several warring factions that are fighting for authority and influence over the inhabitants. They are very well organized, obeying the oldest member of the gang, who distributes tasks to the younger members. Usually this is petty street hooliganism, squeezing money out of "boys and suckers" or burglary. Stereo systems and weapons are most often taken out of houses. Sometimes they sell drugs and weapons. Interestingly, such gangs have their own codes. For example, one of the rules is that everything that happens in a gang should not affect the families of the members.

The word "ars", apparently, comes from the Moroccan "pimp". Arses are young people who roam carelessly in flocks under the scorching Israeli sun and molest girls. They are distinguished by aggressive behavior in public places, do not hesitate to speak very loudly on the phone among strangers (apparently to show their superiority), prefer to cut circles around the city in a car with open windows from which everyone can hear rap or Arabic music.
Arses gather in pseudo-Greek cafes, where they drink cheap wine and argue with waiters and guys at neighboring tables. Arsy dress in trousers with a sackcloth and wear giant gold chains - the more chains around their necks, the better. They wear short hairstyles "under the pot." The Ars also differ in their extremely dismissive attitude towards the female sex, while each Ars strives to acquire his own (or at least one for two) frekha. The word "freha" is translated from Arabic as "joy", they call girls without outstanding mental abilities. Israeli "freshs" are distinguished primarily by revealing outfits.

Probably, any person living in the post-Soviet space has heard the word "gopniks" at least once. The subculture appeared in the twentieth century and became extremely widespread after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Most often, young people are called gopniks, but noticeable features of this social group can also be observed in older categories. Due to the lack of a clear self-identification and the denial by the gopniks themselves of belonging to a certain subculture, it is rather difficult to name the number of "gopov" in the CIS countries. Some Russian politicians have suggested that a quarter of Russia's youth are gops.

Origin

At the beginning of the 20th century, a subculture appeared at that time that was not yet clearly formed and was used only within St. Petersburg. In the 1920s, on the outskirts of the city (which was already called Leningrad) there was a district for homeless children and adolescent hooligans. "City dormitory of the proletariat" among the inhabitants of the city was called by the abbreviation GOP. Hence the name, which gradually spread throughout the Soviet Union.

Spreading

Already at the end of the 80s among the youth major cities gopniks began to stand out clearly. The subculture was the most widespread among youth movements. However, the complexity of its detailed study lies in the fact that the gopniks themselves do not associate themselves with belonging to a particular social group. Moreover, such a generalization causes aggression in them. The appearance of gopov is associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Along with the severe economic crisis, a cardinal change in the system of values also took place. In the 90s, it deteriorated sharply. Many people preferred to earn money illegally. And most often they were related to the criminal world, living according to the so-called zone concepts.

The desire to assert themselves caused the poorly educated and poor segments of the population to strive to be like "authorities", and this is how the gopniks appeared. The subculture immediately acquired certain features. Most often, all youth movements have certain external features that distinguish them from other members of society. This is primarily the style of clothing, hairstyle, slang, manners.

Who are the gopniks: appearance

Gopniks have a certain style of clothing. Due to the mass character and lack of self-identification as a member of a certain social group, there are no special shops or brands for gopniks (as in the situation with punks, rappers and other cultures). Clothing is a contrast between neatness and "intelligence" - the canons of clothing accepted in society. Any person dressed in excessively, according to the gopniks, stylish clothes causes aggression in them. The gopas themselves wear mostly sportswear. These are trousers and an olympic jacket (sometimes with a hood). As shoes - sneakers or (often under a tracksuit). Due to their low financial situation, they cannot afford expensive clothes of well-known brands. Therefore, fake items of such brands as Adidas, Nike, Reebok and others are most often worn.

A symbol of "clearness" is also the classic black leather jacket worn over a tracksuit. This style came from the criminal circles with which the gopas associate themselves. gopnik denies and despises any fashionable hairstyles. Therefore, as a haircut, they choose uncomplicated hairstyles for themselves. Most often it is "boxing" or simply Girls, on the contrary, dress too contrastingly and defiantly to emphasize their gender.

Behavior

Who are the gopniks became known thanks to their behavioral traits. Most often they are on the street within their area. In large cities, fights often took place between representatives of different districts for far-fetched reasons. Gopas walk in groups of several people. Favorite places are poorly lit areas with benches or tables. As entertainment, gopniks drink alcoholic beverages and smoke cigarettes. A plastic bottle of cheap beer, a package of sunflower seeds and a cigarette behind the ear are the invariable attributes of a typical gopnik.

Lifestyle

A special kind of pastime are fights and petty robberies. Gopas attack in a group the so-called suckers (non-marginal members of society) in order to appropriate their property - mobile phones, pocket money, precious jewelry. Most often, attacks occur not for profit, but for self-affirmation. An unstable emotional state among the gopniks often leads to conflicts within their own group. The main thing for gopas is an imaginary respect, which, according to their judgments, can be achieved by demonstrating their physical superiority over other people.

The way of life of the gopniks is reflected in First of all, this is music, in which there is a jargon of the gopniks. Favorite genres - chanson, "kid" rap, primitive pop.

Gopnik(also - gopy, gopari, collectively - gopota, gopoten, also self-name - boys) - a slang word of the Russian language, a derogatory designation of representatives of the urban, close to the criminal world or with criminal behavioral traits, a layer of Russian youth, as well as youth of the countries of the former USSR ( since the end of the twentieth century), often poorly educated, coming from dysfunctional families

Origin and meanings of the word "gopnik"

The Russian writer A. A. Sidorov, writing under the pseudonym Fima Zhiganets, analyzing the origin of the word gopnik, refers to Vladimir Dahl, in whose dictionary the word gop "expresses a jump, jump or blow ..., gop, jump or hit." According to A. A. Sidorov, the word "gopnik" (or "gopstopnik") refers to a street robber. The same follows from short dictionary criminal jargon compiled by Yu. K. Alexandrov, where the word "gopnik" denotes a robber. According to the information service of the Russian “Reference and Information Portal Gramota.ru”, the word “gopnik” refers to the slang words of the Russian language and means “swindler, raider; pogromist, hooligan."

A. A. Sidorov notes that the word "gopnik" is also used to refer to "beggars, vagrants, homeless people." According to Sidorov, this meaning arose even before the revolution of 1917, when in Russia there were "orders of public charity" - provincial committees, which were in charge of caring for the "poor, crippled, sick, orphans, etc." special care homes at the expense of zemstvo funds. In this sense, the word "gopnik" comes from the word GOP, which stands for "City Society of Charity" (from the word prizor - care, care). Due to the fact that the funds allocated to help the poor and the homeless were not enough, the inhabitants of the charity houses were engaged in vagrancy, begging, and petty theft. Therefore, the word "gopnik" soon began to be called "tramps, ragamuffins and beggars." This meaning was preserved after the October Revolution of 1917. According to the Big dictionary Russian language” (editor-in-chief S. A. Kuznetsov) gopnik — “a person from the social lower classes; tramp". According to the explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language of the candidate of philological sciences T.F. Efremova, the word "gopnik" means "a downtrodden person, a tramp."

At the end of the 19th century, in the premises of the modern Oktyabrskaya Hotel, located on Ligovsky Prospekt, the State Society of Charity was organized, where homeless children and teenagers were brought, engaged in petty robbery and hooliganism. After the October Revolution of 1917, the State Hostel of the Proletariat was organized in this building for the same purposes. The number of juvenile delinquents who hunted in this area has increased several times. Among the residents of the city, the word "gopniks" appeared, which was used to call the residents of the GOP from Ligovka. The expression “the number of gopniks is measured in leagues” appeared, and among the inhabitants of Petrograd, then Leningrad, it was customary to ask ill-mannered people: “Do you live in Ligovka?”

A. A. Sidorov notes that at the end of the 1920s, the “bastard brethren” used the word “gop” to call the rooming houses, and their inhabitants - “gopniks”, or “gopa”. Russian sociologists V. I. Dobrenkov and A. I. Kravchenko noted that the word “gopnik” is derived from the word gop, a slang word for beggars who have absorbed elements of criminal culture and which means “staying in a rooming house”.

Sidorov draws attention to the plot of the story by L. Panteleev and G. G. Belykh “Republic of ShKID”, in which the teacher, wanting to threaten the pupils, shouts at them: “You only bug me. I tell you ... Gopa Kanavskaya! Talking about the wanderings of one of the heroes of the story, the authors write: railways with the soldiers' trains heading to the front.

Analyzing the origin of the word, Sidorov also draws attention to the common and associated with the word "gopnik" expression gop-company, which means "a cheerful gathering of people who are not too serious and reliable, on whom it is better not to rely on responsible business."

According to E. N. Kalugina (Stavropol State Agrarian University), the word "gopnik" can be called "primitive, poorly educated young man". Sociologist Albina Garifzyanova understands gopniks as "uneducated people, culturally backward, absolutely intolerant."

Concepts close in meaning: hooligans, punks, street boys, yard gangs, lumpen.

The word "gopnik" has an analogue in English language: "chav" (English - chav) is a widely used pejorative slang word for a young man of low social status who usually wears "branded" sportswear, which is also characteristic of gopniks.
Characteristics of representatives

As a stable expression, the word appeared in the late 1980s in relation to representatives of the youth, for whom the theft of property on the street was not so much a professional craft, but, as Saratov researcher Elena Bessonova notes, “part of the image of a criminalized community, a means of entertainment and a way to maintain authority ". According to the researcher, in the 1990s, "gopas" appeared, for whom everything characteristic of the life of their "ancestors", to which the author refers to criminals, became "a kind of philosophy of life, worldview, a way to position oneself in society." Bessonova notes that “for the modern gop, it is mainly more important to scare and humiliate a person, to test his power over him, and then to embezzle his money.” Proximity to the criminal world predetermined the use of thieves' jargon and profanity.

Socially, representatives of the subculture mainly come from the outskirts of industrial cities. Most gopniks came from poor, dysfunctional families.

The image and behavior of a typical gopnik is a parody of the representatives of the criminal world of the 1990s in Russia and other CIS countries. The black leather jacket and sports leotards were taken over by the teenagers straight from them. Gopniks were engaged in petty theft and extortion of money.

Representatives of the gopnik stratum are distinguished by pronounced aggression against members of society oriented towards Western values (as a rule, against “informals” oriented towards Western culture), and they also disdain the so-called. loham - to everyone who does not comply with the "boys' concepts" - the unspoken rules of behavior that have developed in the criminal environment.

As Ramil Khanipov (Kazan State Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev) notes, “The City Center for the Prevention of Neglect and Drug Addiction of Minors of St. Petersburg designates gopniks as “informal associations” and includes them in the “aggressive” section. Internet forum discussions speak about the level of development of these informal associations as follows: “... from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, gopniks are still the most common form of youth associations to this day,” and all the sources used emphasize the pronounced criminal and group nature of this subculture: “Mostly these are fights , robberies, raids that are aimed at extracting money ..., alcohol and cigarettes.

The head of the Moscow branch of the LDPR, O. Lavrov, stated that the gopniks make up a certain part of the electoral base of his party: We believe that the gopniks are the most powerful political force in Russia. People laugh at us, call us a party of outcasts: gopniks, thieves, vagrants and drunkards. But, you see, these are all people whose interests no one else represents. We set up our points at railway stations and at one time we had a million members. When we nominated Malyshkin as a presidential candidate in the 2004 elections, people were shocked. Well, yes, of course, he is not an intellectual, but the gopniks will vote for him.

Doctor of sociological sciences, director of the New Generation project of the Public Opinion Foundation, Larisa Pautova, in 2009, believed that “gopota” is at least 25 percent of today's youth. By this word, the sociologist means young people who do not aspire to anything, finding themselves in the mass of their own kind.

Unlike most informal youth associations (for example, hippies, punks, role players), the gopniks did not assign any names to the rest of the population and did not distinguish themselves as a separate group relative to the entire population, which means that they did not recognize themselves as a subculture.

Most youth subcultures are characterized by a hostile attitude towards gopniks, reaching extreme antagonism.

Researcher Elena Bessonova notes that at the beginning of Perestroika, the gopniks were the only ones among the youth who were not fond of any music. Later, representatives of the subculture were prone to thieves' music, Russian chanson (Mikhail Krug, Butyrka group). Also, many prefer pop (pop music) and "boy" rap.

In the 1990s it seemed that “ gopniks" soon they will take over, if not the whole world, then at least one sixth of the land. "Gopniks" ruled the roost in all 11 time zones of Russia. Gopniks - or Russian men who adopted the style of gopniks - flooded into all areas of life, from "business", where they played the role of sixes, to politics, where they formed the core of resistance to Western influence …

Gopnik(gop. race. normal boy; goper, gopar, gop, gopota, punks, gopson; in post-revolutionary Petrograd - a resident of the City Hostel of the Proletariat (the current Oktyabrskaya Hotel, according to contemporaries, all walked in red socks and were identified by them, from there it went) - the lowest multicellular, pikhot from the criminal world, but in fact - a punk, a petty street criminal and a goon larva, an instance of one of the types of street animals (cats, dogs, gopniks, etc.), whose main hobby is push-ups from passers-by and mobile phones, well and of course fuck emo and others. In the west, gopniks call themselves hooligans.

The appearance of gopniks for our readers is not difficult: these are Russian guys like "don't put your finger in your mouth" with pimply skin and stupid faces, which reflect only one thought "Yes, I put it on you!"

“These guys are more comfortable squatting than standing. But, most importantly, these are the last males on planet Earth who manage to wear leather gangster caps of the 1920s with chic - everyone else in such caps looks like nothing more than faggots from drama school rehearsing some kind of musical," the newspaper writes.

Even the fact that gopniks like to turn on techno to the fullest, sing shitty songs under karaoke in cheap cafes with color music, or wear cheap pointed leather shoes to match their 1920s ragtime-style pill caps, cannot take away their status as the most dangerous scum in the world.

The history of the word, the culture of gopniks

About the word: there are few terms that one hundred percent correspond to the designated object. "Gop" sounds vicious, stupid and funny, but not so funny that you dare to laugh in the face of a gopnik. The word "gopnik" is based on the abbreviation: "State hostel of the proletariat." Add to "G.O.P." suffix "nick" - and the new biological species is ready.

There were gopniks after the revolution. The first gopniks came to Petrograd in the 1920s in search of work. By origin, they were peasants or completely landless erratic barren.

Since they were outsiders in their own villages, often children from single-parent families, and many already had minor crimes on their account, if not worse, the indigenous population of Petrograd, and then Leningrad, treated the gopniks with disgust.

Later, the meaning of the word changed, and the expression "gopnik" meant any dubious type with a shaved head, a thick leather jacket, stupid leather boots and a pillbox cap.

1990s - heyday of gopniks

In the 1990s, it seemed that the gopniks would soon take over, if not the whole world, then at least one sixth of the land. "Gopniks ruled the ball in all 11 time zones of Russia. "Gopniks - or Russian men who adopted the style of gopniks - flooded into all spheres of life, from "business", where they played the role of sixes, to politics, where, as deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party, they formed the nucleus of resistance to Western influence"

Have the gopniks survived to this day?

To explore the culture modern gopniks, the correspondents of the newspaper went to Lyubertsy - a city that in the 1990s was known as the capital of gopniks. Criminality was as common there as tracksuits and seed husks.

What was the surprise of journalists when they could not find any gopniks there. Then the representatives of the newspaper decided to get out to one of the most sinister districts of Moscow, Brateevo, but they did not find the gopniks there either.

What happened to the gopniks? Most sources agree that two factors contributed to their extinction. First, in the 1980s and 1990s, hard drugs and guns suddenly became ubiquitous.

Their incorporation into a culture as fearless and primitive as gopnic meant that in one decade, almost half of the individuals went to the other world.

“The second reason has more to do with changes in habitat. The arrival of Western bourgeois values and cultural preferences, and the beginning of a period of external stability, growth and sobriety under Putin, means that the gopnik’s 70-year reign as king of the world of rebels has suddenly come to an end: Russians of all social layers quickly hated the muzhlan aesthetic of the gopniks"

Shnur's group romanticizes the gopniks in front of a middle-class audience that finally appreciates them, albeit in a semi-ironic spirit that wouldn't be possible if the gopniks hadn't disappeared. Even the original cradle of gopniks - house 10 on Ligovsky Prospekt - today is nothing more than a three-star hotel.

Gopnik Anatomy

The pillbox cap is a key element of the gopnik outfit. Leather - for serious murders, stripes - for all sorts of trifles such as rape in the country.

Ears - usually stick out more than the average Homo sapiens, thanks to fights, as well as an indispensable haircut to zero.

Shish kebab - gopniks (like all Russians) believe that meat tastes best when it is fried on a stick over a fire.

Sweatpants still remain the most ergodynamic for squatting.

Shoes - gopniks prefer a) pointed leather boots or b) slippers, but as cultural assimilation sometimes wear sneakers.

Glass - Everyone knows that vodka tastes best when served warm in plastic cups. It is very important that several midges float on its surface.

Jacket - if he had a sticker on his bumper, it would say "Don't think, I have a leather jacket."

Forehead - convex frontal lobes are inherited from distant ancestors - people.

How not to become a victim of gopniks - instructions

“Somehow there was a case at 7 o’clock in the evening ... We took a bottle of tonic with a friend and stood civilly, drank near the store, then one of the locals suddenly came up, stretched out his hand to say hello (as usual).

The usual questions went there: who are they, where do you drink from, on what occasion do you drink, then eight more people of different age groups pulled themselves up, everyone began to ask questions, who is good for what, who is about money, who is about cell phones, who is about concepts (who in life) ..."

Almost everyone has experienced this at least once. They take a person in ticks and begin to breed - first for a conversation, then for a cigarette, then for a "call", and in the end - for money. For many, this causes fear and confusion. What to do in such situations? How to behave when meeting with "gopniks"?

Their weapon is our fear

Our fear comes from the fact that we do not know the rules by which “that” world operates. But we certainly respect them. Because these are the rules of the strong - concepts. We certainly accept them, but we do not know their principles and norms. This is where the dog is buried. We accept the rules of the game without knowing them.

Naturally, a more or less "bad" freak, even being a frail income, knowing a couple of "gadgets", will beat you in no time. Because you agreed to play by his rules. And a person who voluntarily agreed to play by the rules that he does not know is called a sucker.

Who are the gopniks

The word probably comes from the famous "gop-stop" - which in the hair dryer means robbery or robbery.
Gopniks are not exactly criminals. They follow a thin line - at first they “run into” the victim with a “bazaar”, they probe. Moreover, this is done without a direct threat of violence - from the outside it will seem that the gopnik is politeness itself, and you, on the contrary, are a nervous, unbalanced, or even completely aggressive type.

As a result of such a raid, the victim, as a rule, gives up his property himself - usually small money, mobile phones, watches.
Everything is often on the verge of a “joke”, a conversation “according to concepts”, so then when disassembling, you can always say - he gave it to me himself. This is often confirmed by the victim herself.

If you are in a cop's office, then the opera begins to get nervous, or even go berserk, and, in the end, tries to get rid of you. There are no legal grounds. If the disassembly is among the lads, then you get the status of a sucker. And getting from a sucker is a sacred thing for a gopnik. He's a kid, you suck. Conceptually, he is right. The conversation is over.

What to answer questions like: "Hey, come here!"

This is a test for the Loch suit. The sucker will certainly look back and hasten to approach.

Let's say you screwed up, i.e. stopped and turned, in a word, expressed some interest. But they didn't fit.
- Hey, come here, I said!
“Come here yourself” answers are not good unless you are a boxing champion.
Stand.
They come to you. Scary.
“What, don’t you hear? (frostbitten, swollen...)
Do not pay attention, freeze, like, further:

We are not fools

Let's say your "conversation" did not start with a direct provocation like the one described above. In this case, usually the gopnik will extend his hand to you at a meeting - he greets you like a kid. This obliges you to be moderately polite, to answer the first questions. What he is seeking.

This is one of the main tricks of the gopnik - after such a gesture of "good will", he gets the right to "fairly" be indignant at the fact that you, for example, do not want to communicate with him. Plus, he immediately creates an alibi for himself - “I drove up to him like a kid, shook him with claws. Was it like that!?” - “Well, yes ...” - “And people saw it. And then he began to build show-offs for me ... ". Ten points in favor of the gopa.

We break off at the very beginning. It is very difficult to endure - a look and an outstretched hand to you. The patterns of politeness are etched deep into us. The hand stretches. We hold on. We look in the face. We smile.

Who are you?

The most common question asked of a sucker candidate. You do not need to answer anything, otherwise you will fall for the hook.
Important! If you are the wrong kid, that is, a sucker, then you will certainly shake the gopa’s hand without even knowing who is in front of you. In prison, they don’t shake hands, for example - and the rules of a prison for a gopnik are sacred.

Remember that in a conversation, questions will be asked in such a way that it is impossible to answer them. “Why are you walking here?”, “What are you smiling at?”

Your main task as a true sucker is NOT to stay within the framework of HIS rules, NOT to break off the gopnik with his own methods. Better try to appeal to universal morality and quote the Constitution, and then you are guaranteed to return home with a broken nose and cleaned pockets.

If this option does not suit you, and you want to know how to exit the game as a winner, then read on.

Hitting the bazaar

If they obviously didn’t come to beat you, then the second part follows - “running over by the bazaar”. In any case, if you are not yet lying on the pavement, and people are talking to you, then everything is in order.
- Who are you?
— And who are you? Where are you from?
- Let me see the phone (do you have money? On what occasion do we drink?)
- I do not know you.
Go (stand) further.
If that didn't work (most likely it didn't) and the questions continue, you need to go on the offensive:

The best defense is an attack

The universal answer - always works:
- For what purpose are you interested?

It is important to understand and remember the main thing - you need a reason to attack you. Aggression without a reason is chaos. A reason is expected of you. As long as you don't give it, you are safe.

In no case do not make the slightest concession - do not answer anything. NOT FOR A SINGLE, even a completely innocent, QUESTION.

As soon as you answer something, even the most neutral one, and want to interrupt the conversation later, the aggressor has the “moral right” to accuse you of disrespecting yourself. After all, you “supported” the conversation, and then refuse to continue. Ugly.

Of course, you won't get a direct answer to your question. Tons of options further development:
- And what, it's dirty to talk with the boys? (Are you being rude? You don't respect me? I didn't understand...)

Don't go to the market

You can't go off topic. In no case do not answer questions - "I respect you, but ...", "I'm not being rude, but ...". Your "but" will be immediately regarded as a weakness, so only suckers respond. Then the phrase “What are you making excuses for? Do you feel what?”

This is a 100% trick - it doesn't matter what you answer or just keep quiet, everything will be turned as an attempt to either justify or be rude.

- I'm not making excuses - look at yourself from the outside, you yourself understand that it just sounds stupid.
- Justify.
Why should I justify?
Because you're making excuses.
- I'm not making excuses!
“What are you doing now?”
“I... well... yes, you! I do not want to talk to you.
"Oh, you're also a brute...

Breaking the situation

What, zapadlo to talk with normal boys? is a likely response to your counterattack. Remember - no "no", "not", and even more so "but".
- You didn't answer my question.
- And you on mine.
- Are you going to run into chaos?
Are you accusing me of something?
- Answer my question. Do I have the right to ask?

Pay attention - it is "to ask." "Ask" has a double meaning on the hair dryer - they ask someone for something that will immediately be regarded as a collision - "I have the right to ask." - "What? Ask me? For what? Justify." Everything, again, a dead end, you are in a bag.

- I'm interested in myself.
“I’m interested for myself” is a duty phrase-answer to the question “for what purpose are you interested?”. Everything is fine. As soon as you heard something like that, the enemy faltered - you forced the “right kid” to make excuses. Now the main thing is not to go too far.

- I do not know you.
In no case should you continue this phrase: “I’m not going to talk to you”, “why should I answer you”, “it’s none of your business”. Only stupidly neutral phrases. As long as you haven't given a formal casus belli, you're in a better position.

Hold positions

The cycle can be repeated in different variations. You just hold on to your position, the meaning of which is that whoever started the conversation must justify the reason.

In fact, there is ONE reason, and you must remember about it - to provoke you and get the moral right to attack, insult, humiliate, hit, rob. But, of course, the “right kid” will never voice it, because then he himself will recognize himself as a lawlessness.

And this is no longer according to the concepts - the right guys do not fix chaos. Those. you ask a question that he cannot answer, but, by his own rules, he must. In chess, this is called a "fork" - with one piece we attack two. The only choice left to the opponent is which piece to lose.

We don't bend

In no case do not fulfill small requests - by any concept, you can demand to state the reason at the beginning or qualify it as a direct collision. What do you have to say directly.

- Give me a glass.
We are silent, we smile. Waiting for accusations...

- You're in the bastard, or what?
and go on the counterattack.
- Do you want to hit me?
- I'm asking you like a normal kid.
You earned a point, it justifies. And he calls you a “normal kid” in front of everyone. One more point.
— Ah. I'm sorry, i do not understand. On the.

A draw on a foreign field is a victory

If you don’t want to be defeated, then only one thing remains for the gopu:

1. either start beating you, which puts him into the category of offenders from the point of view of the law or into the category of lawless people from the point of view of concepts. He does not need this, because the gop just wants to rise at the expense of your humiliation.

2. either "admit" that the goal was different - to meet, chat, spend time together. That is, avoid defeat. Which is what was required. A draw on a foreign field suits us just fine.

"Fork" - he already chooses only between which option of defeat to accept. He's most likely not stupid.
— You don't know me? Well, let's get to know each other.
You can shake your paws.

Don't get carried away with winning

If you feel a fracture, then you may well give him the opportunity to rehabilitate himself in your eyes and in the eyes of the boys. This is what needs to be done - otherwise the feeling of defeat will most likely lead to a new wave of aggression, which the bazaar can no longer stop.

How to become a victim

The normal desire of every normal person is to avoid street collisions. Although, in some cases they are inevitable, most often people become victims of gopota because of ignorance of the elementary rules of "that" world.

So, what do you need to do in order to beat you inapplicably: Well, or at worst, they simply bred them into "grandmothers". We list the main mistakes:

make excuses.
Anwser the questions.
Break into "high" tones.
Don't ask for an answer to your question.
Mutter something inarticulate.
Exceed the allowable impact dose.
Fulfill requests: "let me smoke (call, look at the phone number)"

Test Passed

If you do not make mistakes, and your "opponent" does not fall off the battlefield, then you may well make new friends, and even the best Kents.

And if a turning point has already occurred, then maybe you should not give up on further developments - it is likely that you will be offered to drink beer together, have fun.

This is often the case - if the test for “boyishness” is passed, you become not only an equal, but also a respected equal. In crowds of gopniks, there are usually one or two "real" boys, the rest are sticky. The leader always knows this and, in general, he is not interested in them - these are his miserable copies.

Therefore, quite honestly and sincerely, they may want you as a friend. The choice is yours. If not, then no. They patted each other on the shoulder, and even embraced in a brotherly way. The market is over, consumption.

The last and most important rule

The last and most important rule is not to turn around. Either don't start at all, or once you start, don't give up.

Remember Russian fairy tales - do not turn around. Who turned around - lost.

Of course, this is just a canvas, your creativity will always be needed. Fear will make its own adjustments, but, nevertheless, it is possible to remember.

There are many subcultures in our society. Each of them has its own specific features, attributes, lifestyle, behavior. Today we will talk about gopniks.

The term itself comes from the slang word "gop", which means "hit, jump". Dictionaries of the Russian language say that a gopnik is a street robber, a hooligan.

Gopniks, they are also gopy, gopota, gopori - the designation of some representatives of the youth. They are close to the criminal world, sometimes with features of criminal behavior. Most often, these people come from disadvantaged families. They have a low level of education. According to statistics, gopniks study or graduated from vocational schools, technical schools. But they can also be found in schools.

Most often, you can meet gopniks at the entrances and stalls. A particularly favorite place is the benches in the yard. Here they discuss various topics, for example, who has the coolest car or the details of the last fight. Emotional communication, abundant obscene language. Often communication takes place under the chanson playing in a mobile phone. Gopniks love to squat. Often they drink beer from plastic cups and gnaw on seeds.

How gopniks dress

Any informal culture can be distinguished by their appearance. Gopniks also have their distinctive features. Here are some of them:

sneakers faked from famous brands such as Adidas, Reebok, Puma;
tracksuit-type sweatpants, usually with one or two stripes at the seams;
a leather jacket, usually unbuttoned, or a jacket from a tracksuit;
an eight-piece cap, a baseball cap or a black winter hat (popularly "Chechen").

Gopniks have a very short haircut, sometimes they leave a small bang. It is interesting how the gopniks keep their hats. She puts on the top of her head. In this case, the hat should not cover the ears, but, on the contrary, rest on them from behind.

In general, these people dress very specifically. Complete incompatibility and the extreme cheapness of clothes - these are the main criteria for a gopnik's wardrobe.

How to deal with gopniks

If you met a company on the street that matches the above description, then you need to follow a number of rules:

Try to pass by without turning around;
You should move quickly, along a broken path (yards, for example);
Stay close to passers-by - it will pretend that you are not alone;
Avoid dark deserted places;
Try not to start a dialogue with them.

If you still started a conversation with a gopnik, then you need to know how to talk to him.

How to talk to gopniks

The conversation takes place, as a rule, on their initiative. You may be asked for a cigarette, asked to call, or asked where and why you are going. One can only speculate about their intentions. However, the consequences are often bad. Gopniks are aggressive people. Therefore, it is important to understand how to communicate with gopniks. Here are some tips for dialogue with gopniks:

smile, benevolence is always useful;
it is advisable not to answer questions, and if you really had to, then speak briefly and to the point;
do not comply with any requests;
remain polite and calm;
do not speak in terms and tricky words.

Many people are interested in the question of how to deal with gopniks. The fact that there are more and more such people is an indicator of the level of development of the state. Naturally, they should not be physically destroyed. After all, if you attack the gopniks in a crowd, you can make enemies for yourself. Therefore, the fight against gopniks is a rhetorical question. But do not forget about your safety. You need to keep yourself in physical form. If you do not own any of the types of martial arts, then going to the gym once or twice a week will help you to be in good physical shape. In addition, strength and endurance will increase. It is useful to know the techniques of street self-defense. They are easy to find on the Internet, and work out with a friend.

And if you are attracted by the romance of hooliganism, simplicity of speech and thoughts, do you like cheap sportswear and chanson? How to become a gopnik?

It's very easy to become a gopnik. We go to the market and buy the clothes mentioned above. We download the compositions of modern blatnyak to our phone. We get dressed and go to the nearest yard. We approach any company of gopniks. They will definitely take you for their own.

So, I hope now you will know who the gopniks are. Be careful!