PART V. Fathometer

The sea of joy
 
Tuapse - Sochi - Gagra - Pitsunda.
I remember 1973. Working in three shifts in 14 shop fitters, I talked with Sasha peremetristom Akelevym:
- Do you know how great the Black Sea - said he Sochi, Gagra.
- So far? - I doubt it.
- And what far plane to Adler - An hour the sea, palm trees!
And so a year he told me about the miracle sea.
Then came 1974. In late June, I passed at the technical session prematurely. You're 5 days plus 2 days off schedule.
Airport. Flight "Volgograd Adler." Landing. Bus dovozit to the aircraft.
Cute, friendly flight attendants check the tickets at the gangway. Pass the crew members: 3 pilot in blue uniform. We get on the plane TU-134. Tickets cost 18 rubles per one way.
Takeoff. Below us Mamayev Kurgan, the Volga, Volga-Akhtuba floodplain. After about 30 minutes there are the outlines of the mountains. On the left is a huge snow -. As the cap is Elbrus go on reducing. Suddenly in front of us there is a green depression, one can see the house, away sea. Landing. Joyful happy mood. At the airport, take the bus to the city Gagra- it in Abkhazia.
We drove Adler, on the bridge over the river Psou. Mount the left. Right light green, light blue Black Sea!
After about 40 minutes we arrived in Gagra. First Gagra area and immediately reaches the gorge, where are the homes of local residents.
In the evening we chose a house in the center of Gagra. Lenin Street, next to the district committee of the party.
The house is on a narrow street. Sign separate 1 ruble per day. In the dining room of 30 kopecks. breakfast, 50 kopecks. Lunch, 30 kopecks. dinner. And at the plant I received 150 rubles. That's the way life was in the Soviet era!
Happily. Happily. All our people have lived in a cheerful, good mood!
Great, home country of the USSR.
Sea in Gagra seems some special something dark blue, then light blue. In some places, as it were light green, high mountains close to the sea. Ol cultural m, one-storey building in the form of barrels.
Where to sell wine by the glass and then try it standing at the table. After the beach in 20 00, we go there, I buy 2 cup dry vina- 1 rub., 1 cup dry it, and the other a glass mount. Easy intoxication of wine, from the sea, from the smell of flowers, from the good-natured girls walking towards the beautiful promenade . Tale reality!
    We met with two girls. Muscovites. Evening. We drink wine, are beginning to get drunk. It is in our comfortable house. Sasha is in the house with the girl, and I'm out on the other yard. Kissing. Excitement. Touching hands ... But no one monitors the other sister. Oh, it's clear span, which is a pity ...
   Once we decided to go to Pitsunda. It is towards Sokhumi, about 50-70 km. We arrived on a comfortable bus "Ikarus" .In the center of the church of 11-12 century. Avenue of cypress trees to the sea. A right and left of the fence. To the left of the hotel built. On the right area of the Central Committee and the government. From left to climb over a fence, then through the second and we are on the beach. The water is almost fresh, because mountain stream underground washes ashore.
Come to the concert hall. Successfully. Speaker Sukhumi State Ensemble. Lizginka goes for an encore, the beautiful costumes, dresses. The hall spellbound, all the festive mood. We leave after communicating.
Swim in the sea, think "My God what a blessing." And most importantly affordable. As govo ritsya: everyone can afford.
After 7 days, we fly away from Adler, hopefully will be back next year. Landing. Our plane was taxiing to the runway. For we have already pristraevaetsya another plane. Takeoff. Our ship as it hangs over the sea. Turn right. We fly along the coast. Again to the right. Below us the mountain. We fly over the fields, forests, villages, towns. Here Volga. Aquatic Feed. Native Volgograd.
Then came 1975. Passed the exams. And my mother and I in the train "Volgograd Adler." Mom first time at sea. The train passed the station Belorechenskaya. After it begins the foothills of the Caucasus. Plains. The hills and mountains.
Night. Our train sneaks closer among low mountains. Then, picking up speed, and you're flying across canyons. We feel the coolness of the mountains. Morning. F .. D., The station Tuapse. We passed the bridge. And suddenly, with sea views. The train goes to the left. We drive along the sea. Lazarevskoye - Sochi - Host - Adler.
And so almost every year.
I remember 1981. Service in the Interior Ministry. October. Just at work, flu, cough, fever. But his mind. And 28 October flies to Adler. On me suit and cape. Here the heat. All in shorts.
I went to the railway station to the duty of the police. Impose identity on duty
- His - I tell him.
- Yes I see - He says.
- It is possible for 1 hour to leave suit and a raincoat as I find an apartment, just take away?
- No you can not - He frowns with displeasure.
"Cold bureaucrat" - I think.
Suddenly it appears in the duty room guy 30 years with the criminal investigation.
- Come to my office - He says politely.
-I Hour ostavlyu-
- Yes, even 5 hours, not speshite- fun nods inspector.
An hour later I go, thank him for his hospitality.
In a sea of warm salt water do Inga lation. He settled in the hotel Adler.
For chess met a man from the North, where he and his wife, but he likes the freedom.
Once we go with him on the train in the city of Sukhumi is more of Gagra.
Bought back and tangerines. 1 November the weather deteriorates. November 11 evening, buy him wine "Isabella" Let not one bottle. He and his wife, I'm a girl who also lives in the hotel. Morning, looked in the mirror. And I thought: "Drinks good about smiling. But then, how bad, and why? There is no better sport. "
Gonna fly Now. Airport. Hangover does not pass. Takeoff. The mood improved me. Feeling too. The plane seemed to hang over the sea. At the bottom of a dark-colored sea. Turn right. Right away you can see the snow-white Elbrus.
 
Well in Sochi, Volgograd but sweeter, dearer.
 
 
1983 is significant for me. Z When you have completed service in MVD- 3 years. He graduated from the Marxism-Leninism University in his native college.
AND…. I marry.
 
August 14 marriage registration. August 15 going to the airport. W ampanskoe. We arrive in Adler. Bus to Pitsunda. The private sector, between the Pitsunda and Gagra. August 17 I'm 30 years old. We note the restaurant in the summer. Champagne, barbecue.
How nice honeymoon in the Black Sea !!! Going on a trip to Gagra, Lake Riza.
After 10 days, we fly away home.
In 1984, he arrived with his wife in February in Adler and live in the "Primorye" hotel. Once we go in the lobby, and we spoke with the attendant bitterness and anxiety in his voice:
- You know, Andropov died. People feel that something is bad in our country, and no mistake, came Gorbachev, and then in 1991 the collapse of the Soviet Union.
1986. We arrive in Adler. 10 days living at the camp site in Adler. On the 3rd day we go hiking in the mountains. 10 days have passed.
- Let's go to Gagra?
- Go - I agree to the wife.
15 days live in Gagra. Leave the engineers was 24 days.
1988. In September, I take a trip to Gelendzhik. Going by train to Krasnodar. Then bus to Novorossiysk chas3. Then another bus and food along the sea. On the left the mountain, on the right the Black Sea. "Solar" Settled in the hotel. We went hiking for a day in August .1989 Djankoi ticket to Odessa. Plane, airport live on 16 stations on the tram line. Excursion to the Museum of Fine Arts, the city of Odessa.
FROM 1991 collapse of the USSR.
Pensioners, workers, students, farmers stopped going to the sea. Everyone thought, how to survive, but not to starve to death.
And so in 2000. President Putin. It seems to be easier.
On October 6, 8, 00 train Volgograd - Adler, at 5 am on October 7 arrived in T uapse. Night. Touch, drove over the bridge. And here it is welcome Black Sea !!!
The sun had not yet risen. The moon shines in the sky like a spotlight - a full moon. Shepsi stop. Just one can see the buildings sanatorium. All in the green, in the lumen of the street lamps. The train picks up speed. After 1.5 hours of Lazarevskoye. He settled near ZH..D. station. 50 rubles per day - it's minimum. I go out to the sea. The long-awaited, attractive Black Sea!
And all that was bad Since 1991, all the bad leaves immediately. All negative as they say, it becomes fun. How beautiful life!
  On the second day I found the sanatorium "Quiet Flows the Don", and where the evening playing chess. The cottage owners live in some guy with 35 years of Leningrad, a great guy. Once he said to me:
You're nothing to pay immediately for 20 days .u my method: every five days to change their place of rest: Lazarevskoe, Sochi, Hosta, Adler.
In 2001, September 25 once again train "Volgograd Adler." Tuapse. Lazarevskoye. I found a private house on the street Proletarian. In the evening, he met with the owner - appeared chieftain L. Lazarev district. Reserve officer: Youri Tomin. Immediately found a common language. They live vacationers husband and wife, 40 years on
-And We have such and such a method they say.
-We Write off schedule trains Sochi-Tuapse and Sochi Tuapse-, and in the morning before any station, swim, wild beach. There's no water Clove of motorcycles or motor boats. Somehow Youri asked me at the Palace of Culture, which gave a concert dance ensembles of all nationalities living here. I remember the Greek dancing.
I took this method. And in this year I went to the side of the Tuapse and left at the station, which is like a choice.
2 200 a year on 3 October. Again a train "Volgograd Adler" The private sector in the Lazarev. Chess in the sanatorium. All day at sea. I drove all the stations in the direction of Sochi, where he bathed in the sea, and in the evening returned to Lazarevskoye. I remember Air Force Station, where pilots rest. Excellent first resort. On the beach in the evening - the orchestra.
October 20 18 00 train Adler Volgograd. On the left the sea, on the right mountain for two hours along the coast. Tuapse. Many students, after the rest go home. It's getting dark. Train fun flies forward to the mountains meet. Everyone is preparing for bed.
Morning. We passed the city Salsk. Soon Kotelnikovo, where a lot of smoked fish. Residents walk along the carriages, offering their wares. Near Tsymlyanskoe reservoir. Then the fish will not be necessary to buy here. Very tasty and well done Cossacks Cossacks. We drove Abgonerovo. The station Sarepta, and that's Volgograd.
The long-awaited vacation
 
September 12, 2006. Railway railway station. After repairs, he became even more beautiful. The train "Volgograd Adler." Nice conductor 22 years, calling Tatiana. It appears, too, lives in Krasnooktyabrsky area on the street. 39 Guards. I give her my second book, "The revival of the Cossacks in Volgograd."
- 9 May next year at the Mamayev Kurgan. We'll be there on duty. First left in uniform jacket, the DND Volgograda- tell her. - Opinion of the book say there-
- Good- says she almost shyly.
We drove Tuapse. That's the long-awaited sea!
I go out in the Lazarev. Beautiful station. Monument to Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev - restored with the help of the Cossacks. Towards goes Turoyan Victor D., whom I met in 2000, and he put me in a cottage near the station.
- What? - I ask.
- 250 rubles - he smiled. Realizing that it's very expensive for the working man.
I walk along the avenue named after Lazarev. I pass two lanes. Turn right, go through the alley, go out on a second avenue Lenin, crosses it. I walk down the street Tsiolkovsky, just came in from the peaceful street. I climbed the stairs up the hill to the proletarian street. Already at 150 rubles per day accommodation. I went up further in zovskogo Quince Street, where he lived 15 days in the year 2 200. House 17/2 elderly husband and wife, Evgeny Dmitrievich and Nina.
- One hundred rubles agree? -
- Yes, they are responsible.
Eugene D. until retirement he worked on a tea plantation. Nina said to me one day:
- I spomnila where you saw. 200 2. year I worked as a janitor in the street. And pay attention to your walk, remember, as you quickly descend on our street to the sea, and I trained podumala- guy.
- Well, you see, I like your street, for three years I wanted to come here again - I replied.
At home I get up at 5 in the morning - jogging, exercise, I'm here to relax. I come in the evening in 21 00, Lermontov read and sleep. In the morning I get up in the 10 and 00 go to bathe in the sea.
The next day, on arrival I go to Ataman Lazarev district Tomina Yuri Grigorievich. I give him the book "Revival of the Cossacks in Volgograd." The evening 21 September. It's starting to rain. In 23 00 heard thunder, lightning. The next day say goodbye to the hosts. I went to Yuri Grigorievich. I give him his third book "City and Citizens", "Sketches of witness." He gives me two newspapers produced in Abkhazia.
Sign two books, "The revival of the Cossacks in Volgograd"
Ataman North Ossetia Loznevoi Alexei Vasilievich Ataman and Abkhazia - Oleg Petrov, and I ask for the transfer destination.
- Youri I started writing a book about the b Abkhazia. In that year, it is sure to sezzhu- I say. He nods his head knowingly. His daughter Anna 23 years old, a very pleasant and cultural, we brew coffee.
- Have you already leaving? - she is
- Yes, before the year - I have them both.
Warmly say goodbye.
The train approaches 13 00. I have tickets for the train "Saratov Adler" from Tuapse. Going along the sea and recording station. In 14 00 already Tuapse. I walk around the city. The 20 30 is my train.
The newspaper "New Day", which is produced in Abkhazia read from February 2004:
Gagra - Tsandripsh
We offer our readers the materials to the sights of Abkhazia. Sure - they are of historical value and will cause particular concern in the context of the present day. Archival materials presented historian R. Guazhba. Prepared S.Arutyunov.
 
Gagra - Tsandripsh
 
Saja Santa, Santa Sofia and Pitsunda.
 
 
In Gagra title in the form of "Hakaru" was first mentioned on a map, drawn by Italian Pietro Veskonte in 1308 godu.Genueztsy steel factories base in the Western Caucasus since the thirteenth century. The residence was in their Sebastien opolise (Akua). In addition Hakari (Gagra), they founded near Al ahadzy factor - Santa Sofia (Abkhazians have long been a popular Italian names Saja Santa, Santa Sofia), and in Amzare - Pitsunda. Enterprising Genoese exported mainly wood, mostly yew and boxwood as well as abducted by the various joint actions with the local nobility of prisoners. Even today, many births in Italy are of Caucasian origin.
The prisoners were taken away to Egypt, where they formed the basis of a formidable Mamluk armies, as well as in the Middle East.
Beware of unhappiness
 
An interesting description of the visit Gagra district left Patriarch of Jerusalem Dositheus visited the Caucasus in the XVII Ages:
"The place, near which we anchored, was a rock, call th Kontozi local inhabitants (in ancient maps, it signified at the site of today's Cape Adler or Nearer the Gagra). There is a very high square of solid stone column topped with stone tops. We found the front of the column a bronze statue of St. George, around which are heads of wild boar and deer, arrows, swords and anchor hanging from a tree.
The inviolability of things here is amazing. If you forget to take the local banks of any thing their own, you can be sure that no one will use it. In addition, we were advised to take nothing away even without evil intent and confirmed the fact advice. You see - I say here - if entrance to the harbor galley (it was waterlogged ship). When the Ottoman fleet left Kafa, contrary winds drove her here. And the soldiers and sailors honored sanctity of custom from the local post: none of the soldiers, it prinadlezhavsh this gallery, I did not dare to take chetvertik (dish) which measures the bread.     Once one of them did this, and when the fleet left, only the ship was lost. Beware of this and you unhappiness.
A few days later, we came to a little old man to declare that the people of this country have sent a messenger to the Tatar khan. We asked him what he had faith. He did not know how to respond to us, but by removing the book from the bag hanging on his right hand, he asked us if we could give him another like her. Opened it, we saw that it was a prayer book printed in Venice. We were told that the ship is Patriarch of Jerusalem, and we are of his entourage. This news he and his companions were received with great joy: here we learned that they are Christians only because fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, and some of them in the continuation of Lent. It seems that they were primarily Christians and educated people.
 
Voluntary fever
 
The famous Turkish traveler Evliya elebi B, whose mother was one of the famous Abkhaz kind Abkhazia visited twice in 1641 described 25 Abkhaz ethnic groups, which could put in the time up to 100 thousand soldiers. Here is what he said:
"The tribe Ganda (Tsanda - Tsapdripig - RG) - brave people. Their number is about 15 thousand. They are worthy of Abkhazian real name. At the local Abkhaz zyke I call them "Jandia".
Possession Gegba rich as the fabulous gardens. Possession unites 70 villages. Ranging up to 10 thousand troops, mostly cavalry (and today in Turkey, one of the best stunt riders and a Gegba G.) In the territory of owning the river Psou. On both sides of the river gardens. VISITING Abkhazian Hawk in the village, called him Zanyrha. He killed ten thousand sheep. Ate syzbal, ashyla, ahyrtsen, abysta ... He notes that "Length of the Abkhazian coast is forty transition in depth of six-day transition."
After 1810, when Abkhazia voluntarily joined with Russia, Gagraskaya castle was occupied by Russian troops only in 1830 during the "Abkhazian expedition", after a fierce battle. The garrison, which is entrenched in the partially restored the old fortress, in fact all the time was under siege and carrying heavy casualties as the bullets from the mountaineers and then from the raging fever here.
In 1837, the strengthening of Gagra visited by Emperor Nicholas I of .
Prior to that, there on the corvette Iphigenia officer visited SV Safonov, along with it was then known writer A. Bestuzhev - Marly, who soon died in this battle of Adler. With them was an artist NG Tchernetsov, leaving a series of sketches.
The pleasure of regret
 
SV Safonov in his book "Journey to the eastern shores of the Black Sea on the corvette" Iphigenia "in 1836. published in Odessa in 1837. notes:
"Visiting Gagra has left us one of the most pleasant impressions. Wildness places, steep mountains, because of which one can see the peaks of other mountains covered with snow, it is secluded and strengthening of a handful of people that produce feelings of pleasure and a sense of regret. "
Later in Gagra in 1845. traveler and poet Friedrich Bodenshtedt, which left a number of interesting materials and sketches of Abkhazia , including about Gagra:
"Gagra in his position and the magnificent surroundings is one of the most beautiful places on the coast. It is a pity that all the disadvantages , described where it was about Pitsunda, here there twice.
In the valleys grow grapes, huge silver poplars, blackberry bushes, very good fig tree and beech, but lurking in the dense thickets of the fiery jaws of death - malarial rocks. High covered lush green mountains fit close to the sea, but no one dares to build a hut in these mountains, because, among the trees and in caves hidden enemy, and what was spared here dzhigits priberet summer heat, riddled with deadly fumes from his fever and other diseases. "
 
From Ponta Siberia
 
One senior officer in Gagra traveler said: "If there is no other choice, I'd rather go to Siberia than to be exiled for life to the fortress on the eastern coast of the Pontus. In Siberia, though the exiles know what to expect, they can effortlessly earn a piece of bread and are afraid only of natural death. Here, on the banks of the exiled Pontus bathed in sunshine and the glory, but the hot sun brings death and glory, if left alive, then , tend to shorten the length of the arms or legs. "
 
 
People and Alcohol
 
During the Crimean War, the fort was abandoned garrison, and she was blown up. Garrison was taken by the Greek skipper Sarandi Photios the brig "John."
"Taken were only 640 people, 2 bronze cannons, 2 krepos tnyh rifles, 38,000 rounds of ammunition, 3 bo Csonka alcohol, all ammunition, food, and even animals, and upwards of every soldier took with him for 60 rounds. Following the removal of the garrison of Gagra from the brig saw that followed one after the other four explosions E n ... "- the newspaper" Caucasus "for the number 41 of 1854. The entire garrison successfully been delivered to Kerch, where he was met and greeted the mayor of Prince Gagarin, when huge crowds.
In the 60s Gagra garrison was small, the message is carried out only by sea.
 
caucasian gate
 
"Gagra - like AN notes Diachkov - Tarasov - were Caucasian gate transitions from possession Abkhazians possession Djigets, land which in all fairness should be called ialoy Abkhazia as Djigets (sadzua, Saji) spoke as the Abkhazian language, including himself to the tribe Azeri, which belonged Bzybsky and bhaz Tzu, Gumista Kodori or abzhivskie, tsebeldintsy, pskhuvtsy (psohvtsy, living on the upper reaches of the Psou and Bzyb) ahchipskhovtsy lived in the upper reaches of Mzymta, shahgireevtsy, inhabited canyon basin M. Laba, Urushtena myssya couple and some other well-known under our Abaza names.
Saji - they are also called Hy ltsys ( after the main village in the Adler region), as well as Djigets, called themselves Apsua as all Abkhazians. When Keleshbei all their territory to Mamai - Calais ( current Mamayka) was part of the Principality of Abkhazia . Their sanctuary was in the area of Gagra Chygrypsh near the village - Chiuha - molecular weight, as well as Liash - nykha - Adler. Not far from Gagra, situated near the village Sadzkyt. How to tell the Abkhazians old, sister Rabia and Mazyscha Gegba with their friend Saman - ha Kama frequented Sadzykyt. There they gathered in the shade of centuries-old sacred hornbeam trees, the river, the young women who are pregnant. For these meetings, we chose a clear, sunny day.
The hollowed pumpkin they brought a drink of raspberry, fruit and sweets. The drink was a circle. And then began training. Young women were taught sadzskomu language, mastery of the Abkhaz speech. Superb it perfectly soft, like wax on fire, pouring out of their mouths. P Handling the language led camping is very lively, sometimes there were disputes, but the creative process of development was continually. Once their "oratorical school" accidentally found the famous hero Inapha Kyagua. Impressed by what he saw, he listened to the conversation for a long time. Then he appeared before the gathering. All stood up and shyly greeted with a hero.
- What is the meaning of your conversation, Rabia? - Asked Kyagua.
- Nan Kyagua, the baby should be to instill a love of language, not when he was born, but when he still is in the womb - said Rabia, Mazyscha and Kama.
With this giving vividly echoes Veps tale about Vella Teacher, which said that he was "the songs, tales invented, people have not forgotten the sweetness of language, remembering the beginning of its people. In order to clean said as in the fairy tales say, sing the songs" .
Russian understood
Prince made
(General philanthropy)
 
 
 
In 1901 the city of king's cousin, Prince of Oldenburg received at the behest of His Majesty 14500 tithes to the device in the fashionable resort of Gagra to prevent leakage of Russian capital abroad.
"Gagra with obsolete the century fortifications and in the presence of all the natural favorable climatic conditions can have no other purpose other than to make the treatment place and seek really to Russian Nice" - he wrote in this regard, Prof.. I. Pasternatskogo.
Baron de Bai in his book, "Abkhazia. Memories of the mission ", published in Paris in 1904. he wrote:
"Thanks to the Russian territory, located on all this coast, has gained access to civilization, and began to develop. I must say that the beauty of this coastline fairy, magic. Russian and Russian understood it. Now we offer beautiful, the most wonderful opportunities for activities ...
In Gagra as reconstruction has been carried out in another way; planned by one person, and exiting through a rare ingenuity and willpower, it seems a victory. We have said that the word "impossible" is not French. In this case we can say that it is not a Franco-Russian, for not being French, it is not the Russian and Prince Alexander of Oldenburg. This great general philanthropy is all battles for the triumph of good versus evil. In order to help people, he founded hospitals and clinics. For training of children and the organization of their leisure time, he founded the People's House. To combat the epidemic, he organized many expeditions, and he led them. And now his tireless energy he gives the organization Gagra climatic station .
Three years ago, passing through Gagra, the prince was fascinated by the beauty of this area of its exclusive position, covered with virgin forests surround the top of a long strip of land, which is a wide gulf. Here reigned wildlife: an old fortress with the destroyed fortifications turned into ruins; people left this region , and lush vegetation has turned this country into inaccessible and inhospitable terrain. Prince of Oldenburg decided to convert it. Any other person is the idea would have seemed audacious ... And now this event is conducted with American rapidity already was not a dream but reality. Feverish pace of construction work demonstrates the enormous scale of completed buildings; striking that such construction could be carried out in this land so distant from any center, and within three years.
If you're after a trip to Abkhazia, where comfort is not known, the evening will arrive in Gagra, you feel that you were in fairyland, in some eastern paradise. New original buildings, flooded with electric light, towering over the sea, sparkling in the moonlight as the alma s. In reflection of its high shade trees , and in the warm air felt intoxicated with a flavor of flowers.
The thermometer shows the steady good weather. Gagra hotel , albeit a temporary building (fully functional to this day. Ed.), Is the last word of modern comfort. Very curious restaurant, dominated by the huge clock face, showing time from a distance. From their seats in the large dining room, visitors can see the kitchen through a window one can see the mountains and the sea.
Throughout luxurious and at the same time, the family environment, for Prince, Princess Oldenburg and people cooperating with them in promoting their favorite child, eating in general among all, and at this time the top of the gallery is filled with an audience that comes to listen to your favorite music. Judging by what I'm telling you here, as it can be assumed that the Gagra , are likely to become crowded resort, which will have a value of only its luxury. This is not true. Gagra become a hotbed of civilization for the entire western coast of the Caucasus. Last summer, the Prince of Oldenburg organized there agricultural and industrial exhibition. In addition to the built fairing and those who are going to build, there is a large baths, a home for the administration and the many workers who used olnitsa, enterprises occupying with I apiculture and sericulture. Held acclimatization of plants and animals. Constructed winding road, thirty-kilometer, which reaches a plateau covered with alpine meadows. In summer there you can relax in a cool place, while at the foot of the mountain is very hot. Church skillfully and lovingly restored Princess of Oldenburg. "
"Did he Gagra - continues de Boi - does not seem to some fantastic kaleidoscope, located at the end of this flat land, where the sea is conveniently situated close to the mountains; where we are going up to the top - at different tiers we can see various flora and fauna. This region is where the virgin, yet untouched nature of the Caucasus is presented in its wild and poetic beauty, which is the place where you can not find! It was here that the great philanthropist and conquered a small area for a person; this part of it is converted to green, still unknown paradise. "
 
Sailor story - submariner
Boris Konstantinovich Ovsyannikov.
 
                Record October 23 , 2006. Volgograd.
I was born on April 22, 1931 in Moscow, and when I turned one year, the family moved to Leningrad.
While in school , I worked in the drama circle and gymnastics. During the war 900dney and nights spent in the siege of Leningrad; for which he was later an honorary sign "Resident of blockade Leningrad", and after the war continued to live in Leningrad.
  Each man laid on top of certain abilities, talent, which did not immediately disclosed; and sometimes some vital impetus or a certain situation and it is found, here is where it is important to understand, support. How - if accidental attraction; and not to lose, and continue to persevere in this direction in the work.
  And here I have in the critical days of the blockade appeared bent for drawing, on the table was a regular notebook , and lay a pencil; and I one day began to draw their impressions. My mother Galina noticed since worked as a teacher in a kindergarten , and she had some experience working with children. My father Ovsyannikov Konstantin Matveyevich in his youth, I always wanted to be a man under any circumstances.
In the early childhood drawing pictures (small animals, etc.) with the transition to the surrounding reality - the theme of the siege; under the heading "This is what was in the blockade" image: bread lines, broken home as security officer shoots fanatic and ...
That later I was transferred for storage in defense of Leningrad Museum. I gave the originals and copies kept for himself. After the war, he continued his studies at the school, and my mom enrolled me in art school at the Academy of Arts. Repin I.E .; where I learned the basics of drawing, the skills acquired skill and experience. I studied about 1-1.5 years, and then switched to the sport , because he was athletic, agile and has previously participated in sports: swimming, wrestling, boxing, gymnastics; and therefore for admission to the Higher Naval School of the stage, just had a great assist.
In 1951, after graduating from high school, I enrolled in the Theatre Institute, and then in the Athletic Institute.
Then one day in late autumn bathing on a wild beach near the Peter and Paul Cr;peau STI was "recruited" in VVMU.
I told him how it happened. Located on the beach with friends - athletes, we were approached two middle-aged men in civilian clothes and asked, "You want to be seamen? Walk vests and trousers flared "and continue the conversation on the topic: What sports do you do and your sporting achievements.
Among us were first-grade basketball players, wrestlers, boxers and many more permanently anywhere at that time not yet decided on the study.
And the two of them began to test us, to examine
- Take away the stone and how far it will throw?
To which I said:
- Easily, not that in the middle of Dobro;ov, but also on the left bank. But God forbid anyone - ever get hurt and you will be responsible.
What sounded friendly laughter of onlookers gathered. They continued:
- Well, let's taste it throw -
I took up a position to throw, as it should be , in this sport, taking the hand of a stone weighing about one kilogram, and threw it as the core. Nobody has seen a surge. All were surprised - where is the stone? The two of us unfamiliar companions forced me to repeat the experiment .
The result is the same. And it was here in what - swinging to throw , I averted my arm back, let the stone behind him, where he would pick up my friend Sasha Portugalov.
And the people at this time looking at the river , watching the flight of stone suspended along the path. Having solved the trick , they realized that the guys with humor, and offered us who wish to come to the school. They were employees of the department of sports of the 1st Baltic Higher Military Naval School.
They are required to maintain good athletes sports school of Fame, which annually took prizes in sports competitions among military schools.
In this school it is automatically accepted graduates Nakhimov schools, and we have 30 people with the athletes of the citizen; and we kind of disappeared, joined the ranks of the "old moremanov".
Among these "former moremanov" was Jens Patterson, he Nakhimov Naval School and childhood teaching helped in the shooting of the film "The Circus", playing a little negro, and foster mother played the famous actress Lyubov Orlova.
We studied in the same year, on the navigational faculty, and finished in 4.5 years were to serve in the brigade of submarines Xie vastopol, Balaklava Bay . And later he called The recorded number of books after Khrushchev demobilization and reduction of officers in the army and navy.
Our school is in the alley Marine Avenue on behalf N ermontova Mikhail Yurevich, our beloved national poet, whom we also proud.
Nearby was the Baltic Railway Station.
 
Dedicated to the 1955 graduates. 1st Baltic School of                Diving.
"Perhaps the parting on the host, the Russian submarine and
    Remember, remember always our house- School Baltic
 
                Let us recall the warrant officer - cadet,
                Then we stood in the ranks of the face-to-face,
                As 55 we handed the dirk and epaulets Lieutenant
                In Lermontov the school's parade ground.
 
Sumner problem is solved, we Vereshchagin,
Kalinin, Lisin tactics read
About ports Sutyagin told us,
Dobahov, Elsonovsky compasses give.
 
                All 's seas and oceans, we visited
                And observe naval ethics
                But Peter never forgot,
                Do not forget Lermontov prospect.
 
Ruthlessly noisy gray oceans
During this time, many people we lost,
Who heals the wounds on the shore,
Who vanished into the depths of the rustle of the waves
 
 
Where Seva Bessonov - in the ocean at the bottom,
Where Serge Gorshkov - was burned in the compartment,
Where Chernichenko, Grinchuk - lie in the depths,
After all, every one of them wanted to die not.
 
Years passed, too many do not have among us,
But remember all their comrades.
Your feat, the image is not faded.
A minute of silence we Remember them.
 
And if foreign vandals again
Right on Russia menacing wedge
Again, we will be at the helm
Underwater our submarines.
 
And our wives are in fact were ,
With husbands go, changing the garrison.
Thank you, that have kept faithful.
Hugs gentle hand and a low bow to you.
 
And despite the difficulties, bad weather
Life is so beautiful, my friends
Until next time, you health and happiness,
Good luck in life and great love.
 
1955 graduate. Navigational faculty, company Morgunov, 2nd platoon.
Veteran Russian navy Alexander Vassiliev.
- The first thing that struck me at school: discipline and again discipline. The fact that we got to the citizen, and the majority of classmates was with Nakhimov schools; where they were brought up from childhood and accustomed to military skills.
But due to the fact that our sport class was different this feature, we all stood and made to respect themselves.
Learning from the navigational faculty , we are from uchali navigation base in Latin means sail on the ship. Including astronomy: I especially liked to study the starry sky, the constellation of different names and planets; which further navigators determined at night coordinates r. e . longitude and latitude, finding his submarine - (Sq).
The first time our school we have shorn bald and dressed in working uniforms, which we differed sharply from former Nakhimov; who scoffed at us and called us greenhorns.
Since they were a hair and dressed in a vest top to the jumper with a collar with white stripes of dark blue color, trousers black, black shoes and a hat: his cap. And so we put only a month later, ie, After the oath, and we'll just put a cadet epaulettes.
At school in the Gulf of Finland - it is about 15 km from Leningrad was educational - training base for training ships , as part of motor sailing schooners "Study" and "Hope".
He commanded this detachment captain Mikhailovsky DP - One of the most experienced sailors; perfectly controlled and ruled by large, sailing ships. Sailing on the schooners sailing in the Gulf accompanied by daily workouts on the formulation and cleaning of sails, it gave the young sailors great pleasure and left their indelible impression on all his life, in the moment of the base.
After graduating from college in 1955, we awarded the title of lieutenant with the award of the Navy dagger, which we are very proud.
As cadets , in the last years we wear swords (saber type), black scabbard - it was our dress uniform.
They gave us a prescription for the arrival of the headquarters of the Black Sea Navy. Train "Leningrad, Sevastopol," we reached the city of Sevastopol. We drove a group of 5 people. Arriving at the headquarters, we were met by a friendly. Congratulated us with access to the submarine fleet lieutenant; what we said in unison:
- Serving the Soviet Union! -
At the headquarters, we were instructed to arrive at the port of Poti to the post. Once again we have written out a prescription , and we are on the same day boarded the boat route, which was the "Odessa-Batumi", mastered the cabin and went to celebrate their final destination in the restaurant.
At our disposal it was evening , night and half the next day. And as in the fable:
Wine flowed like a river
A neighbor watering his neighbor 
We noticed that the violin playing of the restaurant scene for six years on 25 beautiful girls, one blond, one brunette, one red, one brunette, one painted in gray color, etc. And the eldest of them, apparently the chief - was a complete voice and it was very familiar, she sang, ie It was a soloist. And then I recognized the voice, it was the daughter of Leonid Utesov - Edith. So I have a bit of time studying at the Theatre Institute, and thence such specialization.
Being lightweight intoxication we pulled on amorous exploits.
 
They, in turn, also drew attention to our table. For whom were brilliant, young officers. During the break, I went to Edith and introduced himself as a senior group of graduates heading to the port of Poti on the service.
She smiled and said encouragingly:
- We are companions, unfortunately, only to Sochi , where we're going to gastroli-
I invited them to take part in our humble meal. They got us. We moved two tables, because their table was next .
Each chose his liking - one blonde, one brunette, etc. Met - naming names. We drank a glass of champagne for a successful tour and the beginning of a successful service sailors - sailors.
Our warm company attracted the attention of visitors of the restaurant, who realized that the table are the good guys and they are waiting for great things in the fleet. A waiter at our table began to receive champagne as a present.
At the request of Georgians from sunny Georgia girls sang "Suliko", and then for us to sing "apple" - we began to dance.
The fun lasted all night. In the morning we went to their cabins ...
And in the morning they said goodbye to us with tears in their eyes - telling everyone:
- Where you used to be? -
- And why am I not met you before in Leningrad, we were there on the road? -
In response, I sang her a song:
- We parted - shining from behind the clouds the moon
- We parted, and now once again one
- But I believe we will meet with you again!
They , in silence with violins down the ladder with drooping heads, and we grieve if from above, looking at the clock when the restaurant opens. We still had about 5 hours. Before our eyes the panorama of the city of Sochi. In the port were many greeted with flowers in their hands. Smiles, greetings, laughter, joy in sklitsaniya. We see both the ensemble arrived car and they , the last time waving his hand to us were out of vi do. Before us was a white station behind him could see the buildings of the city, lots of greenery, parks. Right silhouetted mountains Ahup, on top of which was a restaurant, known to us more cadets.
In the city of Poti, we were sent to the headquarters of a brigade of submarines , where everyone was directed specifically at their submarine (square), which was listed by their numbers to / g..№.
I found the crew of the boat. Boatswain introduced command submarines. He is in the position of captain. The time was coming to dinner , and he took me to the mess-room (dining room), which introduced me to the officers of the boat. For the commanders had a separate room , and he went there, and I stayed.
Met . Miner boat (commander CU-3) Art. Lieutenant was a graduate of our school and older than me by two years.
Mechanic with the rank of lieutenant commander (commander CU-5) served about 4 years old, a graduate of Engineering Higher Naval School. Dzerzhinsky. To my left was the doctor of the medical service Art. lieutenant.
On the table was an appetizer: herring with green onions - my favorite, and the oiler with butter. She went pretty waitress smiled sweetly and said :
- What the boys to bring you to dinner? -
The mechanic said:
- Please, soup and pasta flotski.-
At that she laughed cute - they say that will bring, and what ye shall eat, and left.
A proposal to drink to replenish the crew and wished good service. The mechanic took the side of the oval hidden pocket flask (later I also bought the same) and offered to drink alcohol.
We talked. After lunch - a dream. Boatswain took me to a hostel for officers, as this was not on the boat, and at the base, where divers lived.
We came to the one-storey building. In the lobby was on duty sailor - orderly with a bandage white and blue on the sleeve; it is called in Rtsy sailors.
Right corridor with rooms for officers, left for sailors.
I walked into the room. There were two beds. One was inhabited, the other was empty. Boatswain, my future mate, brought bedding and made the bed
- If you want - the boatswain said - I podyschu nearby room with a young mistress.
To which I said:
- Yes, I am married. As for graduation, we want to send to the North.
And in the North to be idle is very dangerous. You can become an alcoholic , playing whist on the floating base in the spare time - Boatswain nodded understandingly head and left.
In the morning I arrived at the rise of the flag on his submarine.
At the ladder I met XO (executive officer) and introduced me to a team that together smoked the left of the ladder - a special place for smoking.
Rang out a team built to lift the flag on the top deck at the stern of the boat.
- Stand up. dub -
And when we heard the following command:
- Attention! - At this point, according to the law on the ladder entered the commander. I went up on deck, holding his hand to his cap. I approached him and first mate reported:
- Comrade Commander, the crew of a submarine built for lifting the naval flag -
Commander welcomed:
- Hello fellow sailors -
- Good morning , Comrade Lieutenant - said the officers and men.
On the other, standing next to the boats, there was the same. About dnovremenno all boats sounded the team:
- To raise the flag -
Then the order was given:
- Everybody down, prepare to agile achivaniyu on otsekam.- mechanisms
The sailors quickly slipped down the ladder, and they fled every man into his compartment.
Miners-torpedomen (CU-3 team) are located fore and aft compartments. Their commander CU-3 located in the nose compartment, where there were 4 torpedo tubes.
Mechanics in led by the commander of the service (CU-5) were placed in the diesel and battery compartment.
My staff of CU 1 and CU-4: steering, headed by the boatswain, hydrophone and navigational electrician took their battle stations. I just went down to the central compartment and took his seat at the chart table. In front of me turned on sounder (a device for measuring depth), and the left navigational electrician spent actions to prepare for the launch of the gyrocompass (device , generating the direction of South-North on the surface and underwater ) . This instrument is like the heart of the ship that detects its path (course).
Its sensors are rendered partially up to the commander's cabin, where the commander of the watch officers or, if necessary, could control the course of the boat - this is when the boat is on the surface.
Radioman hydrophone and took their jobs. And then on the broadcast (like a radio or loudspeaker) entered Team:
- Start-rotation mechanisms.
What does it mean - everyone should check the correct operation of the equipment entrusted to him.
This work is carried out every day at a certain time standing at the pier boats. This work is carried out for 2 hours. It turns out some problems. They immediately corrected personnel, under the supervision of the respective commanders.
For the quality of work performed personally responsible commander, XO and commanders warhead.
2 hours passed. After turning mechanism in Central th compartment, where the commander and the chief mate, the team comes from all compartments.
- The first compartment! (central). Reports to the commander CU-cranking mechanism 5 is completed. Remarks net.-
Similar reports come in the first compartment - a central position from all the compartments of the submarine.
Incoming commands:
- Personnel of the line up to pirse-
So the XO and assign tasks to each department on work provided according to the daily routine.
- The commander CU-1 to obtain the corrected navigational charts, get refurbished mate devices (watch, sextant, etc.)
- The commander CU-3 replaced the torpedo and make loading the boat.
- The commander CU-5 to produce recharge batteries and maintenance work on diesel. Report the results to me -
(Battle of the - CU -3 on this submarine was not, as this artillery)
And the work begins:
Some work in the submarine. Others receive a torpedo and carry it on the tracks that would load up on the submarine. Others headed to the doctor go to get the products, etc.
Still other cylinders receive pressurized air .
Lunch at 14 00 . Sleep 45 minutes. And then begin classes on political affairs and to improve the skills, etc.
 
Out of sailors from the torpedo tube
 
Naval Submarine Base , together with surface ships, was a single military garni residential areas of bnesenny where barbed wire, where a moat filled with water, and where a rusty metal fence, as Circle was marshland .
     The garrison was far from the city badly passable terrain and the bridge over the river Rioni.
One day we became Prep curl to perform a combat mission: exit of personnel from the sunken submarine, the depth of 50 meters .
Preparation was first:
I of - the theoretical stage. They remembered the basics , received the sailors in training detachments on special simulators (were filled with water), and the bottom of the torpedo tube.
This was back in Leningrad, on Vasilyevsky Island. There stood a tall tower, housed inside a former church. A simulator torpedo tube was embedded in a basement filled with water. And now we s not forget , we are in the sunken boat - conditionally.
II of - phase . Before entering into the torpedo tube, the test should be examined in the chamber, the chamber being in this particular time, atmospheric air pressure, which corresponds to a water column pressure of oppressive human coming out of a certain depth.
As filling air pressure chamber, a man begins to feel discomfort: one lays the ears start to hurt the other teeth, eyes, etc.
Watching the reaction of midshipman cadet through the glass is seen listening to the signals supplied to the one who is in the chamber, ie, knock arm, leg. In this case, the pressure is released and taken out of the test - rest. This was the second stage of practice
III of - phase. Immediately after the pressure chamber on the sailors wore light diving equipment, which consisted of:
1)     mask mouthpiece , from which the hose is a rubber breast bag, which is attached to the chest with special straps.
2)     To the right and left of the bag were two metal cylinders, one oxygen, the second with helium.
3)     The charge air cushion corresponding chemical composition are in submarines.
4)     On hand to put on the clock with a stopwatch by the arrow, the numbers on the dial and hands are coated with phosphorus.
IV - Stage. First the most experienced sailor gets into the torpedo tube, pipe diameter slightly wider than the human body, in front of it is a signal buoy, about a basketball ball, which comes first on a special rope and float to the surface s. Sailors call it the line, and it is mounted electrically.
This buoy has a flashing light, and as it is built phone that saves use to communicate with the crew (submarine). Then climbs the second and third sailor after each other.
The V - phase. Next to them batten down the hatch torpedo.
Then, each of which sends a signal via the tapping.
The signals indicate that the position is not empty properly and sailors are ready for further action.
Convinced ready to leave, then the inside of the machine slowly fed air pressure, similar to the pressure chamber. Upon reaching the atmospheric pressure in the tube torpedo, which corresponds to the water pressure of the vertical column (in our case, we are at a depth of 50 m )
 
Once again, the men give a signal about the state of health (now knock 2 times).
VI of - phase. Then from the torpedo room slowly mechanically open the front cover (bow) torpedo tube.
The water begins to fill the vessel, where the men are.
And if an error in the water column pressure discrepancy allowed (ie the distance from the torpedo to the surface of the water) pressure pumped into the torpedo tube, it may occur serious complications with the staff.
Therefore, this work allowed the officers with more experience.

And then we have Boris Konstantinovich dialogue takes place.
He continues:
- And then they come to the surface-
- Stop - I say - do not understand, tell the details (we've known since 1989, working for the head of the ode Barricades in departments) in your NUS his 12 years, he reads, is yaet picture of what? -
- I'll picture - continued w I close my hands up, he also closes his eyes and begins to remember.
- I am the first room the door opened , keep in the right hand buoy relieving upward, the buoy went - I say .
- So, now lining the end of the rope over the arm - he said with his eyes closed, just imagining a picture in the torpedo tube.
- You see? - it
- No, I can see if the dark
- Around the light, the sun is shining - says he
- Seriously? - I opened my eyes
- Yes - he smiled, just opening the eyelids.
- Look , he must first be on the outside of the hatch, lining lin-
I close my eyes again:
- It felt left arm, I see it, I have fixed line
- So , now comes up , hold on to the rope, before the first musinga - he says.
- Now I understand - I continue -
 
 
 
We write the story.
 
VII of - phase. Repeat situation. The first sailor slowly poisons the buoy, ie slowly releases the line, on which the fixed buoy. After he had come to the surface, will be slack in the rope - this means t possible to get out. The first attaches the end of the rope behind the bracket on the outside of the torpedo tube (because he has not got, pausing , secures the end of the rope)
Then he gets out of the torpedo tube, taken for musing (ie a float made of wood), and a certain number of them and they are located from each other at a certain distance.
The first sailor , holding hands for musing and legs wrapped around tench, withstand a certain time (from 1 minute to 3 minutes) in accordance with a given program (ie how much is each musinga).
Then he rises to the second musingu - pause. And then adds a certain portion of the breathing bag from the right and left cartridge, achieving the desired concentration.
Next in the process of lifting it makes similar stop. (Approximately 50 meters 10 musinga calculated)
First it came to the surface, where it picks up the rescue team. The first gives a signal to the second rope twitch. Second out in the same manner, and then the third.
Total time to surface these three specifically defined time finding a boat on the water depth (boat from the ground to the surface, rather torpedo to the surface as the boat can stand upright; here means about 10 minutes).
There are some tables.
This work we have carried out close to the port Pontius (Abkhazia), accompanied by a surface ship.
There I opened my eyes and looked at Boris Konstantinovich he sat a little pale, his hands were lowered down with clenched hands (I stab the heart and conscience). He opened his eyes: they were a little confused - he also represented the scene-painting, looked at me and said in their hearts:
- Fyodor you pooped me, you pulled me from the wires - and smiled warmly. Then have fun added:
- Well, and you have the imagination and Fedor!
- You for it just give the Nobel Prize. Share? -
I seriously said hopefully:
- Yes, God forbid! -
And he added cheerfully :
- I've had a liter of brandy -
What Boris K. fun laughing and joking to me wagging his index finger, he said:
- Well, since you will not get it. You made me remember what I forgot, it's been 50 years ago! -
- Well - said I , - one-fourth of you- Award
- That 's fair - gleefully rubbed his hands Boris Konstantinovich.
I repeated: - God forbid -
Continuing the story of Boris Konstantinovich.
 
Two months later I was transferred to the port of Tuapse, where he was in the brigade submarines 6 -13. This diesel-powered submarines with significantly improved t aktiko- specifications, (compared to the submarine, "the type of CB ka")
Where I was doing work on the submarine 6 -13 in the post - the commander of a steering group. With dekabrya1955 July 1956 in Tuapse we went out to sea to processing tasks, including special tasks of patrolling in the specified squares; in which we changed to other submarines.
We are a month are offline (ie without ascent) voyage of 30 days, the task is executed.
Departing from Tuapse on the surface and about 3 miles the submarine goes under water. The feeling is not pleasant: a perception that as if the earth goes from under its feet, metal presses, figuratively, on the body, and you feel like you above the water is growing thick , and you fail you into the abyss.
PL began maneuvering and secret held by the square where we watched the movement of submarines, Turkey and the United States; sometimes interfering signals with each other. Before the Turkish coast was about 5 miles .
Near the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.
I recall in August 1954 , an educational campaign on the ship "Tulum" around Norway and Denmark, with access from the city of Murmansk, calling at New Earth, where throwing the landing, ie construction battalion. And then we went to Norway leaving rounded on the left side the North Cape - Northern point of Europe, in a distance of 3.5 miles .
Bypassed Denmark Peninsula Revsnes, just in a distance of 3 miles .
Zeeland Island, Strait Hattegat; Ome island.
They went out in the Gulf of Finland, where the right was Tallinn. These all of these places, I have been plotted graphically - in ink indicating the longitude and latitude, the true bearing and distance.
And before the same drawings were the set yu made in the campaign in May 1953. Black Sea, Crimea, Sudak raid with the Genoese tower. View Cape Kodashim. Lighthouse Co. dashsky (white stone tower and a lighthouse on it).
 
 
   The story of the Pacific Fleet sailor Shashlova Vasily.
 
Recording started 26.02.2008goda.
We worked together at the plant "Barricades". We met by chance at the trolley stop, so many years later, in January 2008goda.
- Cool Basil! - I
- Fedor's great! - Is he.
They came to my house on the street 5 The Titov. I signed him four of his books, including the first edition of "Sounder" and told that conceived the story after the diver to write an eyewitness account of the surface ships. It turns out that my friend Vasily served in the Pacific Fleet.
I started that my idea of the surface fleet probably like many people, is: - It is a ship on the sea. Cuts the waves, the sailors washed the deck, while others relax in the cabin. Boatswain whistles "all the top", the sailors ran up the stairs to the deck. Building. Team commander: to uncover the weapon. Volley. Shells fly towards the enemy, and that sort of thing.
- So? I ask him.
Basil smiles - but not quite well
- And what about the reality? - What happens in practice. I need more detail, and the reader too - try to "inspire" a friend of mine on the hard work, ie memories of naval life and their own personal experiences, discovery, surprise, etc.
The mood is! Both are excited, we start the creative work for the next generation!
I worked on the "barricades". August 7, 1978 I was 18 years old and I come to the agenda comes Krasnooktyabrsky RVC, they say to me: - go to study in DOSAAF naval school, majoring minder - Easy diver.
This nautical school was then in Dzerzhinsk District. And then it moved to the Voroshilov district street Barrikadnaya 1.
Theory and practice for diesel engines, we were in the Dzerzhinsk region, and damage control and submarine slopes, we were on the Volga river, where it was built to this day, it is worth the Sea School DOSAAF Volgograd.
DOSAAF - a voluntary army Assistance Society, Air Force and Navy.
After high school, three months later, I received a certificate minder 1 class diver and light (ie under water to a depth of descent to 10 meters ). November 1, 1978 I called in the morning to the central regional recruitment office with things. The whole day I spent there. In the evening came the merchants ie officers, warrant officers with the Pacific Fleet and was told that we 30 draftees will serve in the Pacific Fleet on surface ships.
At 4 am we loaded into a bus and taken to Volgograd airport. We loaded our TU - 134 and flew to Moscow Domodedovo Airport. They waited to gather recruits team, under the supervision of officers, from all cities of the Soviet Union. Then we have about 300 people were loaded into the aircraft IL - 62 and we headed for the city of Khabarovsk, without landing on the line.
The first time I saw the transition from night to day!
In one way you look out the window - the night, and in the other side of the looking glow of the sun. It is not just when the sun sets or rises - it's like the band separation of day and night.
When we flew from Volgograd, it was warm +10 and -10 in Khabarovsk. All natural frozen. We are from the airport were loaded onto military trucks and taken to the naval part of the city that would spend the night in the barracks on the name "Lincoln."
Spent the night, had breakfast, packed lunch was given, and taken to the Railway station, and said that we are driven to uchebke the city of Sovetskaya Gavan. It is near the town of Komsomolsk - on - Amur.
Morning 6. 00 pm before we were on the road, and then arrived at the station of the city of Sovetskaya Gavan. There laid branch track separately from the main highway.
There we were first built. Check: whether alcohol and unnecessary items, and led to the barracks. For three days we lived in the barracks. We checked the medical commission, which asked if anyone suffers seasickness, ie pitching and so on.
After that, all brought to the bath in turn. And at the same time it warned that those who have the good things back home can send them by post mail. Who has the money - to hand over the foreman. Then, as we were dressed in naval uniform, elders have begun to teach, how to survive in this system. I find it very useful in life.
And who was with ambition, he explained as follows:
- You eat stew? -
- Eat-
- So: the bull is driven into a tin can and the man over-
The meaning of such morals, it is necessary to behave culturally, not defiant; not rude, not to be rude to a senior officer.
- You are not a citizen! - Added to officers, so to speak after him for intelligence.
After 1.5 months, I took the oath, ie December 15, 1978 after the end of the training unit, SCHOOL, we were assigned to the ships. From the city of Sovetskaya Gavan City to the port of Vanino, we walked to the ferry Sakhalin 4. There were about three hours. We were loaded on the ferry about 30 people and as the sailors say, do not sail, and went to the island of Sakhalin in the city of Holmes. When we arrived and when waiting for the car, we decided to look into the store. So the first time I bought and tasted pineapple - a product of the tropics.
They loaded us on a train and taken by the Japanese narrow gauge railway in the city of South Sakhalinsk. Day we went. Mostly drove hills, tunnels and high above the cliff Sea of Okhotsk and the Tatar Strait.
When we arrived in South Sakhalinsk, we waited for the car, and then drove to the city of Korsakov. And there, my naval service took place in the main.
They brought to the base. Distributed: one at headquarters, others on the signal beacons, and I got to the sea trawler "Polsoty". Where he served for 2 years. And a year on the ship "Pavlov", ie with dekabrya1978 to 1979 he served in Korsakov on the ship "Polsoty"; then from 1979 to 1980 on the ship "Pavlov", the Cam Ranh in Vietnam, there is a military base of the Soviet Union.
December 1980 to November again on "Polsotom". And in November 1981 demobilization! And I returned to Volgograd.
It was a retreat. Now service!
22 In . 00-hour in the evening we drove for 5 people on the trawler "Polsoty". We were dressed: black jackets, black his cap, black pants and a black jacket. We went to the ship.
The commander has given: - where someone for offices: to radio operators, steering, Minera zasyavtsem - sekretchik; and I was in the warhead (warhead) № 5.
- Sprosili- who in the specialty? -
- Mechanic, light diver - I replied.
The commander CU-5 III rank Captain said:
- Motorman enough. You'll be an electrician.
And then he added:
- You can not, teach, do not want zastavim.-
And then already reminded the marine proverb:
- We consider a sailor all his life to fight for zhivuchest-
We went down into the cabin. Dressed in a robe. Ie white-overalls kipelno white pants, a white shirt or jacket. And then there are the blue overalls which were given to us later.
A well-dressed were:
I variant. On a normal day, black pants, a black jacket and GYUIST tacked on to the tunic from behind aqua; peakless cap and black.
Option II. Black pants, white jacket - tacked GYUIST peakless cap and white.
III variant. There is a form called NAIL - winter version: black overcoat to boot (barren) and black top hat peakless cap and was also black.
Then we went down the ladder down into the forecastle (a place of rest, meals, etc.), had dinner and went to bed.
At 6 . 00 is a sound alarm with a loudspeaker. The duty of the ship announces; - Team stand - twice.
Now fizzaryadku if standing at the pier, the charge on the beach. 2.5 km along the coast and then back and fizzaryadka.
After charging the breakfast in the cabin, and then tidy, ie engaged in cleaning the ship. So four times per day. I accrue to shower cabins - a company cabin deputy commander for political affairs and a corridor.
After tidy each branch was going to do its job. Motorists were taken for a diesel engine, electrics for electrical equipment. It lasted for one hour. Check all electric motors.
Home on trawler - a control unit demagnetization of the magnetic fields of the ship to the mines could not primagnititsya to the ship. After checking. Before lunch. We solve the problem, if they arose.
Since 13 . 00 to 14 . 00 lunch. Since 14 . 00 to 15 . 00 sleepy hour. Who writes letters who repairs the shape, etc., in general, free time.
Since 15 . 00 to 18 . 00 engaged in the revision of electric motors, wiring, etc. In 1800 dinner. Then we start the fourth time to get out.
Political information 19 . 00 to 20 . 00. Then after 20 . 00 spare time. And hung up in 22 . 00.
During the service received a combat mission. The La Perouse Strait unidentified opponents put mines. And our goal was - to demine. Mina stands at a depth below the water surface, approximately 1- 2 meters on cables. The trawler trawls these mines. But as? There is a descent ramp about 100 meters , and it cuts the rope cutter and mines float. Then they explode. Or rather we shoot out of cannons, machine guns, and some rifles and shoot these mines.
When I first went to sea, regardless of the officer or sailor - his omoryachivayut, ie he should drink sea water and realize that it is already a sailor. More precisely - the ship is draw a bucket of sea water, and then poured into a bowl and drink.
When we went camping. Before us was a task, or rather the captain. Accompany civilian tanker from Vladivostok and from there. There were such moments; when there was a very strong storm, we had to go to the Kuril chain. The islands of Shikotan and Simushir. On the island of Shikotan, I take a steam bath in the black, ie, smoky, with fumes. We walked through the hills and I collected the root of ginseng - Ginseng, and then sent to his relatives.
All times are starting out. Japan, the band goes from dawn. Colour red. This is a fascinating and unforgettable sight! When we passed the Kuril arc, near the geysers we splashed out and gets warmer. Very beautiful!
When the ship goes, it is constantly accompanied by dolphins.
There was such a case: one sailor had gone to the village at 3am AWOL. And then drill. 5 people, we started to look for him. Everything was dark. And then we saw the lumen. They looked at one house and saw how they "engaged in" five girls. We broke and released him. He was very grateful to us.
On the ship sea trawler new "Midshipman Pavlov" recruit the best experts to perform specials. problems in the friendly country of Vietnam. And I check all the special department in Vladivostok.
In Vladivostok, we changed clothes: shorts navy blue jacket sleeve aqua and forage cap with a visor.
And we went through in the direction of Korea, China and came to the base in Cam Ranh, Vietnam. Went 2 weeks to carry out public tasks. On arrival in Vietnam in 1980. there met us summer tropical rains; palm, mango, banana trees. For us, it was surprising that there is a climate in our land. They came to the base without damage and began to settle and get used to this climate.
At first we had a hard time. We went swimming in the sea where a lot of coral, jellyfish. Began the task; demining. We went into town Hoshemin buses.
We changed into civilian life and so went out. The citizen went to museums, went to our teachers who teach the Vietnamese military affairs.
On the anniversary 20th anniversary congratulated me, and the commander sent me to the base name of President Nixon, who became ours. We swam, ate bananas; plucked coconut, pineapple tree. They climbed on the hills, over rocks with instructors.
It surprised me the beauty of nature! Fish orange, blue, yellow, red, green; corals, crabs, dolphins. In the morning came, the sun was rising, and the left, took the sunset.
In one case, one foreigner who swam in the sea, decided perenyrnut flock of jellyfish. The result: Electric shock, and he was taken to the medical unit, do not know if he survived.
There was an incident. After the Americans left a lot of prostitutes. They were imprisoned in labor camps. And when we passed, they lure us, shouting, flirting, what we would have paid attention to them, etc.
In 1980, our astronauts flying and Vietnamese. Vietnam was elated!
One week it's not working. There were marches and demonstrations. Union and Vietnam forever!
Ordinary people live badly. These are consequences of Americanization. Where used bombs were bare fields, lay cobblestones, etc. This inhumanity affects not only me but also others.
After the crew of the task was preparing to sail home. But instead of the six months we have held - 1 year and three months
In March 1981, we returned to Vladivostok.
When we were there, one sailor has inflamed appendicitis. We had to operate on him immediately on the cruiser "Minsk" where he was a specialist doctor. But we did not give the Chinese boats to pull the boat, and we were forced to withdraw from the Chinese mile zone (tense situation was with China) to the Strait Bashi, between Taiwan and the Philippines.
Having Bashi Strait, then we could pull the boat and carry the sick sailor on the cruiser "Minsk", which made him the surgery safely.
In this strait we found a big storm over eight balls. Such a storm I have seen only once! Then we have engine failure, and we could not move under its own power.
We had to call for backup through the headquarters of the Navy. And the large landing ship came to us. On which she served as my brother and classmate Vladimir Gurin.
I knew he was on this ship is. We pulled back two weeks from Vladivostok. After repair, we have returned to their city of Korsakov.
The commander gave me leave 10 days. However, since the road 20 days, 30 days. I took a plane ticket. And it took off from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. IL-18. The city of Khabarovsk. And from him to Moscow. IL -62. And from Moscow to Volgograd at the TU - 134 took off on May 10 and 10iyunya I had to come on board.
Home I arrived in the form of: black pants, a black jacket, blue UST with three strips of white and black peakless cap. Flared trousers to 40 cm .
Hello young sailors!