cigarette

About our campaigns about fights with enemies
People of a song will long sing
And in a circle with friends in often evenings
These days we will sometime recollect
About fires-big fires
About friends-companions
Somewhere we will sometime speak
I will recollect infantry and a native company
And you - for that that you have allowed to me to light
Give we will light a companion on one
Give we will light my companion
And when there are no fascists and in помине
And to favourite we will come again
Let's recollect as on the West went across Ukraine
These days we will sometime recollect
About fires-big fires
About friends-companions
Somewhere we will sometime speak
I will recollect infantry and a native company
And you - for that that you have allowed to me to light
Give we will light a companion on one
Give we will light my companion
Give we will light a companion on one
Give we will light my companion
In the history of an origin and manufacture of cigarettes — there are not enough facts and many legends. In the USSR a wide circulation the legend that tobacco factories have strategic value, for example, had: diameter of Russian cigarettes ostensibly was 7,62 mm, therefore machine tools for stuffing by their tobacco it is possible to use (if something happens) for filling by gunpowder of sleeves of cartridges of the most widespread calibre. The legend does not maintain criticism. First, gunpowder and tobacco — products different in properties, filling of sleeves by them (cartridge or tissue) demands the different equipment. Secondly, "calibre" of cigarettes not so such.
"Calibres"
Cigarettes consist of a sleeve and tobacco filled in it, and more often mixes табаков (on professional сленге — bags). The external cover of a sleeve — a tubule from a tissue paper — is called as a shirt, and a parcel from more dense paper, inserted into a shirt, — a mouthpiece. The free space from a mouthpiece where tobacco is located, has "the cock" name. That tobacco did not get in a mouthpiece, on its edge turned aside cocks, becomes 4–6 notches (teeth) unbent in a mouthpiece. Weight in 1 sq. m of a tissue paper of 15,5-16,5 grammes, a thickness of 22-26 micron. Weight in 1 sq. m of a paper for mouthpieces of 95-100 grammes, a thickness of 200 micron. Cigarettes had three diameters: 7,2; 8,2 and 8,8 mm. The tissue paper in width 25, 28 and 30 mm was accordingly used. The admission on a deviation of diameter of a sleeve: ±0,05 mm. The length depending on length of sleeves made cocks from 25 to 40 mm. The rating of cigarettes on last Soviet classification shared on four classes. The class had the first lengths: 105 mm, 95 mm, 92 mm, 85 mm (the most known cigarettes «Herzegovina of Florae»). A class the third: 92 mm ("Kazbek") and 85 mm ("Amateur").
Class the fifth: 82 mm ("Belomorkanal") and 85 mm ("Amateur").

And 70 mm ("North"). A class of the sixth: 82 mm ("Wave") and 70 mm ("Surf"). (The given classification is entered in 1948, but позвоялет to receive representation about pre-war marks unless "North" was "North"

The above there was a serial number of a class of cigarettes, the below their price. There are some differences of cigarettes from cigarettes. First, at manufacturing of cigarettes the sleeve is made, then in it tobacco is located. At manufacturing of cigarettes tobacco turns around a paper. The longitudinal seam of a shirt of cigarettes is clamped «in the lock», glue is never used. The seam in cigarettes sticks together. Cigarettes should go out, when them do not smoke, and on them the ashes layer in 3–5 mm is formed. Cigarettes, even the cheapest, go out more slowly, and the majority burns down completely (to the filter). It is reached by entering into a paper for cigarettes of special additives, from here a tissue paper transparent, and cigarette — white colour. Presence of the filter at cigarettes is not difference — cigarettes with the filter also were made.
Marks
In pre-revolutionary Russia each factory had the tissue marks usually possessing «a social accessory». But in certain cases under one mark cigarettes of different grades were issued. So, factory "Лаферм" let out cigarettes "Zephyr" of five grades. This practice has been continued by some manufacturers and after 1917. For example, the Don state tobacco factory in Rostov-on-Don (before "V.Asmolov", now «the Don tobacco») in 1925 has let out cigarettes «Our mark» four grades. However release of cigarettes of different grades under one mark was not characteristic, and here practice of release by each factory only "the" cigarettes kept still for a long time.
Cigarettes «Herzegovina of Florae» have started to be made at S.Gabaja's tobacco factory prior to the beginning of the First World War, most likely, in 1912.
Simultaneously with them cigarettes "Java" on which manufacturing there was the high-quality tobacco brought from the island with the same name began to be issued. Both and others "have endured" those October, 1917, have been in the early twenties awarded Mayakovsky's well-known advertising slogans, and in 1925 — a silver medal at an exhibition in Paris. After ten years after the beginning of release of cigarettes "Java" the factory which had to the beginning 1920 name «state № 2», itself began to be called as "Java". And «Herzegovina of Florae», and "Java" concerned the highest high-quality segment

Cigarettes
There is a popular belief that cigarettes have appeared in our country after the Great Patriotic War. It not so. The first cigarettes began to be issued in the USSR in 1926 at the Leningrad 3rd tobacco factory of Trotsky (earlier — "A.N.Shaposhnikov", later — Clara Tsetkin's name, now — «Nevo Tobacco»), however before war by popularity did not use. Really cigarettes, trophy or arriving from allies, the Soviet smokers распробовали in days of fights.
The main smoker of an epoch

Contrary to a popular belief (diligently supported by game films), Stalin alternately smoked not only выкрошенные in a cigarette tube, but also easier cigarettes, and also usual pipe tobacco.
In particular, in the memoirs George Dimitrov mentions that has somehow brought to Stalin to a gift pound of its favourite pipe tobacco Edgeworth Sliced. Stalin has thanked, примолвив that does not know, whether long to it still doctors will allow to smoke a tube.
Really, in the last years of life the leader of the doctor have compelled it to pass for cigarettes (including their less unhealthy), and then and have at all forced to give up smoking. Valentine Berezhkov, Stalin's translator, mentions that at the Teheran conference (1943) Joseph Vissarionovich smoked a cigarette, having refused a tube on request of doctors.
Before it has occurred, табаки "Edzhvort" and "Prince Albert" were bought for Stalin abroad through the Soviet embassies and the trade missions by economic services of the Kremlin.
Favourite mark of cigarettes of I.V.Stalin


Tobacco factory "Java" has the primogenitor the enterprise based in Moscow in 1856 by businessman Samuilom Sadukovichem Gabaem. It was караим the Crimean origin. Originally it had factory in Kharkov, but then together with several fellow tribesmen has got over to Moscow, hoping that here tobacco manufacture will have more prospects. Cigarettes and tobacco «Herzegovina of Florae» (Herzegovina Flor), as well as "Java" occur from pre-revolutionary times. "Java" has received such name because for its manufacture at factory "S.Gabaj" was really used the tobacco arriving from islands of Indonesia, and a basis of "Herzegovina of Florae» has made the tobacco brought from Herzegovina, district on Balkan peninsula.
The brand has safely endured revolution. In 20th years it has been noted by Vladimir Mayakovsky's talent («Any cigarettes will be given фор by" Herzegovina of Florae »). However, Mayakovsky advertised then all successively – rhymes only for different marks of tobacco products in its collected works more than two tens. Already during later times manufacture of" Herzegovina of Florae »has been transferred from"Java"and to some other factories of the USSR.