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Stalin's five-day workweek, called the nepryvka (continuous workweek), was a 1929 Soviet experiment to maximize industrial production by eliminating the traditional Sunday rest day, keeping factories running constantly by staggering workers' rest days across five-day cycles (four days on, one day off) for different groups.
Key Features of the Calendar
The traditional seven-day week was replaced by a continuous five-day cycle consisting of four days of work followed by one day of rest.
Workers were divided into five groups, each assigned a specific color (Yellow, Orange/Pink, Red, Purple, and Green).
Only 20% of the workforce was off on any given day. This ensured that factories, machines, and offices never stopped running—not even on Sundays.
The traditional concept of "Saturday" and "Sunday" was effectively eliminated for urban workers to prevent the weekly slump in productivity.
Objectives
To meet the aggressive targets of Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan, he wanted machines to operate 24/7 without idle time.
By making the "day of rest" different for everyone and removing Sunday, the state aimed to make religious worship (which requires communal gathering) nearly impossible.
Staggered schedules meant families and friends rarely had the same day off, which weakened traditional family bonds and social organizations that could foster dissent.
The experiment was widely unpopular and eventually failed for several reasons:
Workers complained that they could never spend time with spouses or children who were assigned different color groups.
Because machines never stopped, there was no time for preventative maintenance, leading to frequent breakdowns.
With rotating shifts, "everyone’s machine" became "no one’s machine," leading to poor care of equipment.
By 1931, Stalin transitioned the country to a six-day week (the shestidnevka) with a common rest day, and the Soviet Union finally returned to the standard seven-day week in June 1940.
Pictures: Soviet calendar for 1930 showing Gregorian months, traditional seven-day week, five national holidays, plus colored five-day work week.
(Continious work week caleder, Smart museum of art.)
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Stalin's five-day workweek, called the nepryvka (continuous workweek), was a 1929 Soviet experiment to maximize industrial production by eliminating the traditional Sunday rest day, keeping factories running constantly by staggering workers' rest days across five-day cycles (four days on, one day off) for different groups.
Key Features of the Calendar
The traditional seven-day week was replaced by a continuous five-day cycle consisting of four days of work followed by one day of rest.
Workers were divided into five groups, each assigned a specific color (Yellow, Orange/Pink, Red, Purple, and Green).
Only 20% of the workforce was off on any given day. This ensured that factories, machines, and offices never stopped running—not even on Sundays.
The traditional concept of "Saturday" and "Sunday" was effectively eliminated for urban workers to prevent the weekly slump in productivity.
Objectives
To meet the aggressive targets of Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan, he wanted machines to operate 24/7 without idle time.
By making the "day of rest" different for everyone and removing Sunday, the state aimed to make religious worship (which requires communal gathering) nearly impossible.
Staggered schedules meant families and friends rarely had the same day off, which weakened traditional family bonds and social organizations that could foster dissent.
The experiment was widely unpopular and eventually failed for several reasons:
Workers complained that they could never spend time with spouses or children who were assigned different color groups.
Because machines never stopped, there was no time for preventative maintenance, leading to frequent breakdowns.
With rotating shifts, "everyone’s machine" became "no one’s machine," leading to poor care of equipment.
By 1931, Stalin transitioned the country to a six-day week (the shestidnevka) with a common rest day, and the Soviet Union finally returned to the standard seven-day week in June 1940.
Pictures: Soviet calendar for 1930 showing Gregorian months, traditional seven-day week, five national holidays, plus colored five-day work week.
(Continious work week caleder, Smart museum of art.)
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"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."
- Anaïs Nin
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Traditional dress of Mongolia.
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Willys Jeep conversion. 
Wishing Everyone a Blessed 2026! 💜
May this year be filled with even more exciting moments and memories!
Fireworks are still best seen from afar!
Here's our top pick from the fireworks surrounding us from Shangri La all the way to Station 3!
Over 17 minutes of non stop action!
See you in Boracay!
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The art of wood carving. 
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The art of wood carving. 
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New Year's Day 2026, in different countries...
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I make my living as a “trash sculptor.” I made all of these animals from repurposed materials (primarily plastics.)
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Happy New Year 2026 💜 Nostriches
Last night on Whitesand Beach 🎇 🎆 
Pura Vida
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The Panna Meena Ka Kund stepwell in Jaipur . The architectural masterpiece .. Beyond water, it was a community gathering spot where people socialized, rested, and performed rituals.
#jaipur #stepwell #architecture #people_and_world
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The Phantom Corsair coupe was designed in 1938 by designers Rust Heinz and Maurice Schwartz. The car is a two-door, six-seater. The engine has a displacement of 4.7 liters and an output of 193 horsepower.
The aerodynamic body is made of steel and aluminum. The planned mass production was canceled, Rust Heinz died in an accident in 1939. The car is located in a museum in Reno.
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On this day in 1973, the Jim Croce single “Time in a Bottle” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (December 29)
Croce’s record company originally didn’t intend to release the song as a single; but when he was tragically killed in a plane crash in September 1973, its poignant lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, really hit home…
The song subsequently began to get a huge amount of airplay as an album track, and demand for a single release built.
When it was eventually issued as a 7", it became Jim Croce’s second and final #1 hit, after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" in July 1973.
“Time in a Bottle” was the third posthumous Billboard #1 hit after "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding and "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin.
Elsewhere, the song that was included on the LP "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", went to #1 in Canada and #60 in Australia.
Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970…
#jimcroce, #timeinabottle, #70smusic, #dailyrockhistory, #thisdayinmusic, #onthisday
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