What does the word gopnik mean? The world of modern crime

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 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 they formed the core of resistance Western influence…

Gopnik(gop. race. 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, all walked in red socks and were identified by them, from there it went) is a lower multicellular animal, an infantry from the criminal world, but in fact it is a riffraff, 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 1920s leather gangster caps with chic - everyone else in such caps looks like nothing more than faggots from theater school rehearsing some kind of musical," the newspaper writes.

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 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 new species 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, the newspaper writes.

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

They entered the legends as blatari and lucky ones, whom even Soviet system. 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.

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"

Some gopniks swapped leather jackets and sweatshirts for Hugo Boss brown blazers, but couldn't resist adding glittery mules to this splendor: gold chains around their 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?

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"

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 a "Gopnik Museum" in his native St. Petersburg

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.

Sports trousers and 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 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 suddenly one of the locals came up, extending 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 during the disassembly you can always say - he gave it to me himself. Which 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 " good will"He gets the right to be "fairly" 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 the main task as a true sucker - DO NOT stay within the framework of HIS rules, DO NOT 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 afterwards, 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 double meaning on a 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

Everyone's normal desire normal person is the avoidance of 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 needs to be done so that you are inapplicably beaten: Well, or, at worst, simply bred for "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.

Outskirts. Street lights, of course, do not burn, and you hold the phone in your hands, illuminating the concrete path with it. It got dark, empty, cold - the desire to be in a warm, cozy apartment is greater than ever. Suddenly, from the bowels of the playground comes a dashing whistle. "The nightingale the robber?" you think. But let's take a closer look: who is it calling us in a hoarse voice and unfriendly demands to approach him?

Gopniks, gops, gopars. Collectively - gopota, gopyo. We met in courtyards, at public transport stops, in underground passages. Over time, from the name of the most common subculture, it became a household name. He swore obscenities in the minibus - gopnik. Didn't throw a cigarette butt in the trash - gopnik. Drink alcohol on the street, laugh out loud in public - gopnik. But few people think about what is the history of this culture, what rules does it have and characteristics. We decided to dispel the haze of uncertainty with our historical digression and tell everything.

HISTORY OF ORIGIN

The history of gopniks does not begin with the dashing 90s, as many people think, but with late XIX century. In rainy and chilly Petrograd, on Ligovsky Prospekt, the State Prison Society is being created. Abbreviated as GOP. Homeless children and children caught in petty hooliganism and theft arrive in it. A little later, after October revolution In 1917, the Prize Prison Society was renamed the State Hostel of the Proletariat. The function has not changed, only the number of young violators of the law has increased several times. Residents of the city began to call the pupils of the hostel "gopniks", and the expression appeared in everyday life: "The number of gopniks is measured in leagues." And they asked ill-mannered people: “Do you live in Ligovka?”

After the Great Patriotic War, when the gopniks had not yet become a truly large-scale phenomenon, Soviet punks were operating in the courtyards of the outlying areas. Their gangs were divided into districts and were at enmity with each other, constantly arranging mass brawls. The police did not intervene, because the punks did without a serious criminal offense and did not maintain ties with the world of crime.

The term "gopnik" became widely known in the late 1980s, during the perestroika period. It was the only subculture that did not "score" certain musical genres and did not oppose the masses. But in the end, the cultural impact took its toll - the gopniks began to use the "gangster's bullshit", adhered to "prison concepts" and felt the thieves' romance in their hearts - dirty, but honest and boyish. By the dashing 90s, they became a full-fledged part of the culture - with a chanson borrowed from those sitting, sportswear, due to the cheapness and a huge number of fakes in the regional markets, as well as authentic rules and habits.

RULES

Gopnik Gopnik strife, not everyone adhered to the established canons. Only a few important points distinguish a gopnik from an ordinary street hooligan and lawless person:

• Rule #1: "Opponents fight one on one." An attack by a mob is something that was done in exceptional cases.
• Rule #2: "Do not call for help from elders and do not complain to them." Since this is a manifestation of weakness and cowardice, which was condemned and punished.
• Rule #3: "A fight must have a reason." Beating for no reason is a lawlessness that is punished by elders.
• Rule #4: "You can beat, you can't maim." They fought to the first blood and never beat a person who decided to separate the fighting.
• Rule #5: "You can't brag about something you haven't done." A person could always be required to prove his heroic deeds. In case of deceit, the braggart is guaranteed universal contempt.
• Rule #6: "Don't touch lovers." Even if a "stranger" from another area escorts his girlfriend through someone else's territory. But as soon as the girl crosses the threshold of the house, the disassembly begins.
• Rule #7: "You can't hit or insult girls." But this rule did not apply to girls of "easy virtue" or those who smoke cigarettes.
• Rule #8: "You can't give up friends" - never, under any pretext.

CHARACTER TRAITS

• Sportswear, a hedgehog hairstyle, a rosary, a cap with a visor or a black sports hat on the back of the head (the most likely version is that the gopniks copy the habit of demobilizations, who wore caps in front of a citizen in a similar way; another legend says that in times Kievan Rus men thus showed that they were ready to fight).
• Warped "prison concepts" - according to "prison concepts" cannot be called a representative of non-traditional sexual orientation a person who does not belong to it. Moreover, homosexuals should not be touched, so as not to “get sick”.
• loose speech, deviant behavior, "patriotism" - gopniks fundamentally prefer cars of a domestic manufacturer.
• Squatting - and it is very important that the heels do not come off the ground. So prisoners in places of deprivation of liberty rested while walking in the yard, so as not to sit on the cold concrete.

How to behave with a gopnik who wants to provoke a conflict?

As mentioned in the article, in order not to pass for a “lawless person”, you cannot fight without a reason. Therefore, conflict must be created. What follows is either a simple chess game or a verbal duel. And everyone is able to win it by following simple tips:

1. Do not approach if your name is: why should you follow his instructions?
2. Do not shake hands: according to the "prison concepts" you should not shake the hand of a stranger. And if this is not the right kid, but a rooster - and you will get sick?
3. Don't make excuses: your "but" will be seen as a weakness.
4. Do not worry: weakness only provokes them to aggression.

Where have the gopniks gone?

Perhaps you have asked yourself this question. Answering it, we will quote a satirical magazine for gopniks and clear-cut boys:

“Just like the mighty tyrannosaurus turned into a dove through evolution, the gopnik degraded before our eyes into a skinny dude with a stupid haircut, who presents himself to everyone as a brand manager, but actually works at the Euroset kiosk, where he managed to pocket enough money to buy a used Nissan Almera, which he loves more than anything in the world.

Gopnik culture emerged against the background of post-war childhood, poverty and national unity when the spirit of brotherhood and mutual assistance was cultivated. A peculiar code of honor, clothing style, preferences in music and lifestyle - all this was formed over the course of a century, transformed and mutated until it disappeared under modern, most often politicized trends. And what will happen next - time will tell.

To date, no one is surprised by phrases like: “gopniks”, “gopari”, “gopye”. The concepts of “gop-company”, “gopoten”, “gopster” are used less often. Various titles hide the same semantics. This is a man certain social status, with a certain appearance, behavioral and speech habits.

At the same time, for different citizens, the meaning of the word "gopnik" will vary somewhat depending on the experience of the respondent. In order not to get lost in misconceptions and to understand whether goparis really exist, I propose to consider this article.

When and why did gopnichestvo appear?

The exact date of the appearance of the gop group is not fixed. However, in 1980 the phenomenon occurred quite often. Companies were people with a lack of moral character, aggressively disposed towards society.

Tellingly, aggression was not shown towards all citizens, but only by the fact that the social status or traits were opposite to theirs.

Entrepreneurs, representatives of the so-called "white collars", a highly educated part of the population fell under this category. In other words, target audience gopnik are everyone who, in his opinion, has a higher status.

In 1990, the situation changed somewhat. The name "gopniks" was changed to "gopy". The concept characterized people with steady life philosophy based on the inability to positively recommend themselves. Percentage of residents eligible for this characteristic 1/3 more than the previous one.

Today in Russia he is engaged in gopnichestvo about 25% of young people. By “gopnichestvo” is meant the absence of distant goals, the meaning of life and, as a result, finding oneself only in a circle of similar ones. In 85% of the cases, the gopnik does not see himself without people like him. Since his identity is poorly formed, it is reinforced externally.

Who becomes a gopnik?

In 1975-1980 most representatives of the subculture were persons of the criminal contingent, after all, by the time the convicts left the zone, they had formed a set of appropriate standards of behavior.

Even being in the atmosphere of city life, they continued to do everything they did during the period of imprisonment. To avoid re-punishment, the gopniks limited themselves petty robberies. Fearing that their transgressions would be reported, the goparis intimidated the inhabitants.

For this reason, for relatively short term citizens there was a fear before the image of the gopnik.

Nowadays, the main audience of gop companies is young people aged from 13 to 25 years old. The reason for the existence of these groups is negativism caused by excessive pressure on a person who is not yet sufficiently developed.

A classic example is when parents show excessive concern for the moral education of a teenager. If he cannot meet the required standards, he begins to reject them. So, there is a group of people who accept young man and is able to appreciate his personality.

In this case, the purpose of creating a criminal image is not to avoid punishment by intimidation, but the process itself, which involves feeling of power over someone. Here, it will be important for the gopnik to choose the right victim. It will rather be a person who has reached a position that the gopnik himself is imaginatively unable to achieve.

Often, gop youth are absorbed in their own way over time and really goes to jail, however, this only raises their status level.

Who define themselves as gopniks?

Given that the environment perceives the status of representatives of the subculture extremely negative, high authority is extremely important for them. They perceive themselves as cooler and emphasize this in all sorts of ways, from clothes to beatings.

Gopniks oppose themselves to the so-called "suckers". Interestingly, often the gopnik cannot give exact definition this concept. In fact, “suckers” are everyone who is not a gopnik.

A mirror situation with the everyday perception of gopniks by citizens, because in 1990-2000 everyone whose morals are somewhat different from common views were considered gopniks. There was no clear definition of the subculture, despite this to the gopy attributed to 38% of citizens.

What is valued?

Although it is believed that the morality of the gopniks poorly developed, they also have many behavioral criteria to determine status. Suppose it is important for a gopnik that the victim has high position. It can be a high income, a prestigious position, respect in society - that is, all positions that can provoke a feeling of inferiority.

If a person with a low, in their opinion, position becomes a victim of the machinations of a gopnik, gopar descends to his level. Therefore, most representatives are afraid of any kind of contact with the holders of homosexual status.

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. Have low level 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 inconsistency 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. Gopnik - 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 classes in 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!

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 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 infantry, to politics, where they formed the core of resistance to Western influence …

Gopnik - (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 drama school faggots rehearsing for some kind of 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 1920s ragtime pill caps, 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 "common 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 minor crimes on their account, if not worse, the indigenous population of 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 swapped leather jackets and sweatshirts for Hugo Boss brown blazers, but couldn't resist adding glittery mules to this splendor: gold chains around their 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, and the beginning of a period of outward stability, growth, and sobriety under Putin, means that the 70-year reign of the gopnik as king of the rebel world 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.

Guide to gopniks from 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? No? 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 clothes, chavas prefer sport 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 money and buy good 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. In addition, Irish neckers are not much different from British chavs - the same appearance 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 around shopping 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, 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.

Nero (also known as turro in Argentina, nado in Mexico and tukki in Venezuela) differ from kani primarily in their hair - 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 novel of the same name Mexican writer Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and a film based on his motives. 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 nieros work as driver assistants, sit on a side stool and collect money from passengers, while the older ones become drivers and decorate their workplace icons, flags and key rings. IN free time nieros like to play futsal, always with a naked torso, a photo of themselves on mobile phone, like ordinary Russian chicks.

Rakai stand out from the crowd with their Lacoste tracksuit (sometimes Sergio Tacchini or Airness) and the 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 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 huge groups in 15-20 people, they squeeze the girls, the whole company swoops down 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 built-up areas in our country high-rise 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”. Interestingly, 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 there is a broad concept of “white trash” for all 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 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 buddies. If he does work, he earns very little, and immediately spends the money received on a “new TV set” 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 differ aggressive behavior in public places, do not hesitate to speak very loudly on the phone among strangers(apparently to show their superiority), they 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." Arses also differ extremely dismissive attitude To female gender, while each ars seeks to acquire its 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.