The trend has changed a lot all over the world but tattoos were always in Russia. The boys use to pierce the tattoos on different parts of their body parts. In Russia mostly different gangs use the tattoos as their gang symbol. Some of the people pierce the tattoos to give personal expressions. Different designs have been developed that recognize and give different meanings. Whereas in Russia the code system is really complex that makes it difficult for many of the people to decode the tattoos.
The piercing of tattoos in Russia started from the jails. Tattoo Russian became a usual practice in the Russian jails and prisons. This underground activity was first discovered by the soviet researchers in 1920s. If you so through the photographs of old prisoners from the early period it elaborates the high developed subculture of Russia of making the tattoos on the body. At that time it shows the disapproval for official justice and retribution. Different phrases of tattoo Russian directly make fun of the phrases and images of different reforms and political figures. This all activity was carried out within the jail.
Different tattoo Russian has different meanings. Some of them are following:
• The barbed wire tattoo on the forehead tells that a person has a sentence of life imprisonment without any parole possibility.
• The drug addicted person was symbolized by the spider or spider’s web tattoo on any part of the body.
• The tattoo of the star was used to represent the years spend in a prison. Each corner of the star represents a single year.
