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going into men’s fashion 5 years ago, beard is clearly entrenched. If you believe the opinion polls, for the next five years most of the ladies started to prefer bearded beardless. The fair sex have beards are associated not only with severity, reliability, intelligence and intellect, but also with sexuality and romantic attitude to the world.

after Studying the statistics, “MK” found out where in Russia are the most reliable, intelligent and romantic macho – unless, of course, judging them by the length of the beards?

the rating of the bearded Russian cities was born out of the internal Analytics, which for their needs conducted by the Federal network of barbershop (special salons to care for a facial, just for men – Ed.).

We regularly study the dependence of the presence of the beard and its length from the social, cultural and climatic characteristics of the region, says network founder Anton Vasilenko. – It is important for us to understand what has the greatest impact on the availability and preferred length of the beard: fashion, religion, family traditions, the level of welfare or climatic conditions? To compile the top 10 most bearded cities, we analyzed data that were collected during the year. And that’s what happened.

Closes the top ten most bearded Russian cities Rostov-on-Donu: the average length of these beards for a year is kept at 2.3 cm.

the Following, according to the data collected, it is Kazan with an average length beard 2.7 cm

the length of the beard in 3-4 cm popular in Yekaterinburg (3.1 cm), Samara (3.5 cm) and Omsk (3.8 cm).

In the honorable fifth place – Moscow, where the capital brought the predilection of its inhabitants to the most fashionable styles of beards – Verdi (beard round shape with a partially shaven cheeks and a bushy mustache, named after the great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi), van Dyck (a simple combination of a pointed beard and thin mustache, a popular Flemish portraitist of the 17th century) and “duck tails” – a variation of the classic beard, the lower part of which is similar to the tail of a duck. All these Peeps bearded mods require the length of facial hair is less than 4.3.

Only three mm bypass Muscovites, the residents of Krasnoyarsk: the length of their beard is 4.6 cm

the Three leaders closes St. Petersburg. Bearded cultural capital firmly hold the mark of 5.2 cm, considering her particular style.

But for the residents of Chelyabinsk than the beard is longer, so it is a beautiful: the local macho wear beards at least a 5.8 cm

First place in the beards and at the same time the reliability and intelligence of the local men firmly in Novosibirsk. This nice Siberian city beard length of 6.3 cm is the usual case.

– Beard, no doubt, gives the image of a man romantic aura, confirms psychologist practices Elena Pihoyavkino. In the survey we asked women perechislili all the associations that first come to mind when the phrase “bearded man”. In the answer, such as “rebellion”, “creativity”, “physical endurance”, “rusticity and adaptability”, “freethinking”, “simplicity and nobility”. Such combinations of diverse characteristics seem strange only at first glance. To understand how women have such thoughts, it is enough to look at the history of beards in Russia.

history of the Russian beard

fashion Historians believe the fashion for beards always preceded by popular unrest and manifestations of a rebellious spirit. Does not make the people to shave off the beard — expect trouble! That was the thinking of Peter I, which is a favorite in Russia, the beard was annoying as the attribute of rejection of his policy innovations. As a result, in 1698, the year the king issued a decree “on tax on beards and mustaches” and introduced forced obrisana.

Similar opinions about the beards were the Soviet rulers, despite the bearded trio the Marxist-Leninists. The persecution of bearded in the young country of the Soviets reached its peak in 1930-e years: then a beard was seen as a symbol of the past, a sign of opposition.

from time to Time struggle with beards abated, but sooner or later rising again — usually right after the next wave of “hairy” fashion from the West. In 1966-th year in the Soviet Union there was not a bearded member of the Politburo, a beard in those years it was easy to completely ruin a reputation.

In the years of stagnation in response to youth fashion bearded old ham (Hemingway and his work enjoyed great popularity) beard, actively ridiculed in the Soviet press and cinema, giving a facial only obviously negative characters. A slight warming relative to the beards happened only after the victory in Cuba of the revolutionary barbudos — which translated means “bearded”.

Ardent revolutionaries, inquisitive Professor, the intrepid bikers and cute simple romance” – geologists with guitars and explorers with the motto “in the cold protects the beard.” All these images put your veil on the face of today’s owners of beards, which are now, by the way, are called not just bearded, and membersecretary (English lumberjack, lumberjack, unlike metrosexuals, “the lamberov” the practice of deliberately brutal in appearance).