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Fartsovka ((ロシア語:Фарцовка)) is a slang term for an illegal business occupation peculiar to the second economy of the Soviet Union: acquiring consumer goods and currency from foreigners. A person of this occupation was called fartsovshchik (фарцовщик) 〔Ilya Zemtsov, ''Encyclopedia of Soviet Life'', 2002, ISBN 1412822564, (p. 123 )〕 The driving forces of this business were high desirability of goods with foreign label in the Soviet Union and the anomalous disparity between the official exchange rate of currency compared to the black market one. Both factors were rooted in the scarcity of foreign goods and currency in the Soviet Union, which made ownership of any foreign things a matter of prestige, especially among the ''stilyagi'' subculture.〔 Started from petty trading, it quickly grew into a lucrative multimillion business, as witnessed by the Rokotov–Faibishenko case.〔 ''Fartsovka'' went into the decline with perestroika: the opening of the borders of the Soviet Union have led to the growth of "shuttle trading", followed by regular international business, which effectively eliminated the shortage of foreign goods, and the primary occupation of a ''fartsovshchik'' was illegal trading of foreign currency, still active in the post-Soviet states. ==See also== *Spiv *Wide boy *Ticket scalping 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fartsovka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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