19 Sept 2018 Jahr - How Russia’s Skate Culture Found Its Own Unique Sense of Style

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Esquire Online

Some people will tell you that the internet killed style subcultures—or a least turned them into a global, universally accessible phenomenon. We say that’s bullshit. Even as the world is shrinking, there are still truly unique groups out there: Men and women doing precisely their own thing, in their own place, in a way that can’t be replicated elsewhere. And we wanted to find them. In this five-part series, Esquire traveled around the world in search of the groups that take personal style to the peak of its meaning.

When skateboarding first hit the USSR in the late '80s, style wasn't a part of the mix. The city of Saratov was home to the first-ever domestic skate festivals and skate park, but the idea of cruising around on a four-wheeled board was still exotic. The movement was young, the culture from abroad almost inaccessible. During those times, Moscow might as well have been another planet for skaters from places like the United States.

Then, in 1987, several team riders of the world-famous skate magazine Thrasher came to the USSR. It was one of the first times local kids saw what skate style could be—but it was just the beginning. Because it was the '90s that proved fundamental in the evolution of Russian skate style.

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