Motorcycles and bicycles as new means of movement in the daily life of South-Russian collective farmers of the 1930s

The article reveals one of the iconic plots of the rural everyday life of the period of collective farm construction, when in the village there appeared in mass such vehicles as motorcycles and bicycles, which were not previously characteristic for the region. The author shows quantitative and qualitative indicators of the process of household mechanization among the collective farmers of the South of Russia and describes the brands of domestic motorcycles and bicycles of the 1930s. The article shows the growth of the purchasing power of the rural population, which had the opportunity, in the prevailing order of prices, to purchase motorcycles and bicycles and reveals the attitude of the collective farmers to the new machinery, which increasingly became part of rural everyday life.