Other Soviet Ballroom
Ballroom dance manuals of Soviet times list quite a few other Soviet dances promoted to counter the influence of the "Western way of life", created basing on folk dances of the peoples of the Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc:
- Tuyana / туяна (Buryat origin)
- Yatranochka / ятраночка (Ukrainian, "A Girl from the Yatran River")
- Slavutyanochka / славутянка(Ukrainian, "A Girl from Slavutych")
- Gutsulka / гуцулка(Ukrainian, "Hutsul Woman")
- Jooksupolka / йоксу-полька (Estonian))
- Transcarpathian Ballroom / закарпатский бальный(Ukrainian)
- Kazakh Ballroom /казахский бальный (Kazakh)
- Figure Waltz / Фигурный вальс
- Vesyalaya Hora / веселая хора (Moldavian)
- "Разрешите пригласить"
- "Skaters" /"Конькобежцы"
- etc.
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