Summer time! We are swimming every day in Pacific Ocean bays. One of such places is shown here, on the photo, and the burdock is the major hero:
I use this plant starting from early May and up to late October every year. I think that this is a reason why I still have hairs on my scalp.
Going any direction on our island you will get into harbor. Two more harbors are shown below. I like this boat, which is under repair now:
And two Pilot’s boats are mooring not far from this place:
My story, next portion, Missilemen 6, is below.
Beer was drinking with pleasure. Dried fish, mostly breams, were eaten in big amount. Everybody in our team could consume six mugs during two hours of free and easy chat. Today all was going usual way. Conversation was jumping from one subject to another. Somebody confessed that only during these summer drills he understood the system of range control that is based on the heavy gyroscopes and electrolytic integrators. Somebody liked to operate with missile mounter. On “Bereza” positions we made the whole cycle of 8K63 missile preparation from permanent state to launch one, so called complex drills, which includes wheel out the missile from storehouse, attach trolley to the launch pad table, take off the missile covers, put it on the table, aim, fill it up with components of rocket fuel, adjust systems, charge integrators, and press “START” button finally. The girls, knowing word of the camp song on the “Slav farewell” tune, with the words about “electrical eye of the SPD, which looks out from the bushes”, asked what this means. It had to explain them about Start-Pneumo-Dashboard, which just is the SPD from the song. Nice name, it suits to the song. This was a reason for the toast for this green box with valves, reducers, pipes and hoses. Then we were drinking for PHS, which is Pneumo-Hydro- Scheme, for 8T115, which is special missile railway car, and for other hardware and systems of the 8K63 complex. The girls of the 158 group had heard many new words and terms that day. I tried to change the subject of our conversation:
“Do you remember our march to Bereza? Eight kilometers we were walking by picturesque forest road!”
“And what kind of marching song did Lesha Tenenbaum start to sing?” – Vovka Utkin asks.
“Come on! Sing the melody! Major stopped it and told that this is a fascist march!” – Sarankin says.
Vovka begins:
“Tam-tam-ta-ta-ta, tam-tam-ta-ta-ta, …”
“But this is the seventh symphony of Shostakovich, invasion subject” – Ludmila made comment: “What a fool told you that this is fascist march?”
All start laughing. All of us know that the seventh symphony was written by Shostakovich in blockaded Leningrad and it was performed for the first time in our city, Kuibyshev, in stern 1942. And only now I begin to think about the reason why it happened that about symphony, its author, place where it was written and first time performed was know by everybody, the major knew this for sure. But the melody, which is known by everybody too, is ascribed to Germans? Maybe it is related to news-reels of war time where this melody was accompanied the screen scene with German invasion? And all of us were watching lots of such news-reels in our childhood. In that time it seemed to us that we knew everything about this war.
Tags: Harbor, Herb, Missilemen
