Interesting story behind the glass cup grinding the legendary edge

This is the most popular drink of the former Soviet Union.

The granyonyi stakan is the granyonyi stakan glass cup, which is also known in Russia as a cup made of special thick and hard glass and has many sides. This was an extremely popular drinking cup in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

This type of cup has a superior advantage over ordinary drinking glasses because of the hard material and difficult to break edge. This cup design is also very convenient for use on rail or sea vessels - thanks to the sharpening edge, it is not rolled on a table when it lifts.

It is known that the material is melted at a temperature of 1400-1600 degrees, then the cup is heated twice and created with its own technology. Each year, in the Soviet Union, about half a billion glasses of this type are produced, enough for every Soviet citizen, several of them. It is an item that has almost never been scarce on stalls.

The price of the cup depends on the number of grinding edges. There are sample cups with 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 edges (even sample edges are simpler to produce). The most popular type - 16 edges costs 7 kop, while the 20-sided model costs 14 kop.

Glass cup grinding the legendary edge of the Soviet Union.

This cup began to be produced in 1943 at a factory in the city of Gus Khrustalny - the famous glass center of Russia. According to a document, the cup became popular and mass-produced in Russia because it had a very suitable design for Soviet dishwashers in the 1940s.

Anecdote states that the designer of this cup is a painter, sculptor Vera Mukhina (statue author i " Legendary worker and farmer" ). Although there has not yet been any authentic evidence to prove that the patent for this unique cup is Mukhina's but her colleagues have confirmed it.

However, if you look deeper, you will find that the origin of this cup has been around for a long time in Russia, around the 19th and 20th centuries.

Accordingly, the first sharpened glass cup was brought as a gift to Peter the Great from a glass craftsman named Yefim Smolin living in the Vladimir Oblast. He bragged to Peter the Great that his cup couldn't fall apart. Peter the Great liked this gift and then continued to produce such cups.

The edge grinding cup is used everywhere in Russia from schools, hospitals, cafes . Russian housewives at the time could not do anything without these cups: Used to measure all kinds of substances liquid and even some cooking books at that time used this cup as a measurement, not a gram.

Even according to Russian tradition, the cup was smashed on party occasions as a sign of luck and happiness.

The popularity of this cup diminished in the 1970s when a thinner glass of glass was produced using materials from Hungary. Still, a series of factories in Russia and Ukraine still produce the a cup, and it has become a symbol of the Russians.

Until now, polished glass cups were still used on trains in Russia because of their convenience and difficulty in breaking down. Every year, Russia also organizes celebrations to show respect for this cup. For example, in 2005, a 2.5m high tower was arranged from 2,024 glass cups made in Izhevsk.