Daily organization of the ship. Designations on modern crew uniforms of submarines of the Russian Navy Explanation of warheads in the fleet
Clueless Dictionary
AIRCRAFT CARRIER - a ship designed for takeoff and landing of aviation (airplanes and helicopters)
BARKAS is a cargo boat on a ship, designed to transport personnel and cargo.
TANK - the bow of the ship.
BANK – a bench in a boat. Banks are also called stools in the cockpit. A BANK can also be a shoal or shoal in some water area or fairway.
BATALERKA - privateer.
BATTALER (or SCROOGE) - captain.
BERBAZA is a coastal base, a supply complex for ships moored off the coast.
BESKA – capless cap.
BDK is a large landing ship.
BZZH – fight for survivability.
BIC - combat information center.
BOPL - combat swimmer.
BP - combat post, combat training.
BOD is a large anti-submarine ship.
BS - combat service, the ship's performance of combat missions for combat presence in designated combat areas.
BF - Baltic Fleet.
BC-1 – navigator combat unit.
BC-2 is a missile and artillery warhead.
BC-3 – mine-torpedo warhead.
BC-4 is a communications combat unit.
BC-5 – electromechanical warhead.
BC-6 is an aviation combat unit.
BC-7 – control warhead (radio warhead)
BYCHOK is the commander of the ship's combat unit.
BES – combat evolutionary set of signals.
BAY - in addition to the encyclopedic concept, this is also the name for a coil of rope, cable, steel cable or cable.
"BURSACHI" - cadets of naval schools. This goes back to time immemorial, when such schools were called BURS
“ALL IN ORDERS AND WITH A DEAK” - to be dressed “immaculately” in a ceremonial dress uniform (see “Form No. 3”)
PICK UP THE SLACK - literally, tighten the cable or rope. But sometimes they say this about relationships between people; “they picked up the slack” means the relationship is very strained. And if they say about a person that “he has chosen the weak,” this means that he has become much more serious about something.
latrine - toilet.
GALS is the direction of movement of the ship (the concept comes from the sailing fleet). “Change GALS” meant a sharp change in direction. When ships did not yet have steam engines, but moved only by sails and wind, this is exactly how sailing went with a headwind. The sails were set at a large angle and deviated from the intended course to the side by about a mile, then they “changed tack” - the ship turned from the previous course by 90 degrees if possible, and sometimes by 120, the sails were thrown at the opposite angle, and the ship continued to sail the new tack is two or three miles. Then everything was repeated over and over again... If you look at all these movements from above, the ship’s path looked like a writhing snake along one specific axis. But! Even with a headwind, the ship followed the intended course. “Changing tacks”...
GAK – hydroacoustic complex.
GAS - hydroacoustic station.
GGS - loudspeaker communication.
GLACOSTAR, chief naval sergeant - a naval rank since 1972, corresponding to the rank of sergeant major in the army.
GLASTAR or Glistar (but this is already completely disparaging), chief petty officer is a naval rank corresponding to the rank of senior sergeant in the army.
GROUPMAN - commander of the ship's group.
DESO - landing force.
DOF - garrison House of Officers, where all cultural events usually took place.
DUSTS are chemical service specialists.
ZhBP – combat training magazine.
ZAMPOLIT, DEPUTY – deputy commander of the ship (combat unit) for political affairs, after 1990 deputy commander for educational work.
ZKP - the ship's reserve command post.
TURN YOUR FINS - DIE.
BEND YOUR FINS (to someone) – to arrest.
“GREEN” – any military personnel, of any branch of the military, not related to the navy.
CABLE – a unit of length equal to 187.2 meters (1/10 mile)
KAPRAZ, caperang, captain 1st rank - a naval rank corresponding to the rank of colonel in the army.
KAPDVA, captorang, captain 2nd rank - a naval rank corresponding to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army.
CAPTRI, captrirank, captain of the 3rd rank - a naval rank corresponding to the rank of major in the army.
CABBAGE is a slang name for the metal frames attached to the edge of the visors of officer caps.
CAISON, decompression sickness - can occur in divers due to improper ascent from great depths. At great depths, an excess amount of carbon dioxide enters the blood - this is how the body compensates for the high pressure, and if you ascend without decompression stops at different depths, then at normal atmospheric pressure the blood in the vessels “boils,” which can lead to death. And if a diver has an emergency ascent, he is urgently placed for decompression in the ship’s pressure chamber.
WAKE, to go in the wake - literally to follow. Walk in the wake - follow on your heels, breathe into the back of your head.
KLIZMOSTAVY - ship doctors.
KPUNIA is a ship's control and guidance post for fighter aircraft.
COMBAT - commander of a ship's missile or artillery battery.
COMBRIG - commander of a brigade of ships.
Divisional Commander - commander of a division of a ship's combat unit or commander of a division of ships.
COMESK - commander of a squadron of ships.
WIZARD – SPS (special communications) specialist – cryptographer.
CON, convoy - escort of civilian ships by warships while crossing the sea.
BOX is an affectionate name for a ship by sailors.
KPS – command communications post.
KPUG - shipborne search and strike group.
KUG - ship strike group.
KF - Caspian Flotilla.
KEP - ship commander.
GALLEY - kitchen.
KAPLEY – the military rank of “captain-lieutenant”, corresponding to the army rank of “captain”. By the way, the previous officer ranks of “lieutenant” and “senior lieutenant” both in the navy and in the army have full correspondence.
KOK (or CHEF) is a cook.
END – non-metallic cable, rope.
KUBAR - cockpit, or living quarters for sailors and junior commanders of conscript service.
KNEKHT - boatswain's head. That’s why they say that you can’t sit on a bollard. In general, a “bollard” is a heavy cast-iron bollard on a quay or pier, to which the ship’s end is attached.
LEER - a fence along the side of a ship.
LINE – a long thin rope.
LAGOON - In addition to the generally accepted concept, a "lagoon" in the Navy is used to refer to a dispensing portion pot for ten people.
FROG WITH ALARM CLOCK - a sea magnetic mine with a clock mechanism, used by combat swimmers for sabotage operations.
MRP - maritime reconnaissance point.
OIL PUPS are specialists in the electromechanical warhead.
MACHINE – engine room.
MAGNIKA – see “Frog with an alarm clock”
MDK - small landing ship.
MZ is a minelayer, a ship designed to lay sea mines.
MILE is a unit of length at sea, equal to 1.872 km.
MICHMAN - before 1972, a naval rank corresponding to the army rank of foreman; after 1972, a rank corresponding to the army rank of warrant officer; before the revolution it was a junior officer rank.
MPK is a small anti-submarine ship.
MRK - small rocket ship.
MCC – international set of signals.
“THE POLAR STAR IS HANGING ABOVE HIM” - this is what they say about a person who is constantly accompanied by luck and luck in any troubles in life. A person who will always find a way out of any, even the most difficult and hopeless situation.
NACHMED - head of the ship's medical service.
NACHPO - head of the political department.
NACHKHIM - head of the ship's chemical service.
NS, and also “ENSHA” - chief of staff.
NK - surface ship.
lashings (a concept that has remained in use since the sailing fleet) are ship’s ropes that were used to secure cargo, tying it to something. TIE - tie, fasten.
OVRA is a formation of water area security ships designed to protect water areas near naval bases.
OPESK - operational squadron.
SPECIALIST - representative of the special counterintelligence department of the KGB of the USSR
PB is a floating base, a ship providing all types of supplies for submarines and missile ships at sea, sometimes used as a communications ship.
FLOATING STAFF – ship crews.
PC is a floating barracks, a special ship designed and equipped for accommodation of ship crews.
PKR - anti-submarine cruiser.
PKS - assistant commander for supply.
PM is a floating workshop, a floating workshop for the repair of weapons and equipment of ships.
PMTO – logistics support point.
PL - submarine.
PILLOW - a hovercraft.
PPS - improvised watercraft.
RB - hand-to-hand combat.
RDO - reconnaissance and sabotage detachment.
RKA - missile boat.
Radar – radar station.
ROMANIANS are specialists in the mine and torpedo warhead.
RYNDA - ship's bell.
SDK - medium landing ship.
FLALLERS - beating signals into a bell. A bottle in the navy they call it a half-hour period of time, previously an hourglass. The number of bells shows the time, counting them begins at noon. Eight bells represent four hours. Every four hours the counting starts again. After each half-hour interval a signal was made with a bell ( the bells were beating)– that is, they gave the number of beats corresponding to the number of these intervals, for example. at 3 1/2 o'clock 7 bells were struck (3 double strikes - on both sides of the bell and 1 simple strike - on one side). For each watch (lasting 4 hours on military ships), counting began from the beginning so that, for example, 8 bells means 4 o'clock, 8 o'clock and 12 o'clock, both afternoon and midnight. Although the hourglass has already fallen out of use, counting time by bells (i.e., by the described strikes of the bell) and the name - to strike so many bells - have been preserved in all fleets.
SKR - patrol ship.
“SKULA” is a part of the side in close proximity to the bow of the ship.
STARMOS, senior sailor - a naval rank corresponding to the rank of corporal in the army.
STAFF 1ST ARTICLE is a naval rank corresponding to the rank of sergeant in the army.
STAFF 2nd ARTICLE is a naval rank corresponding to the rank of junior sergeant in the army.
Informers are specialists in the combat communications unit.
SF - Northern Fleet.
“I SPIT FROM THE TANK – IT FELL BEHIND THE YUT!” – (ironic) a ship of small displacement and modest dimensions.
SALAGA, SALAZHATA – 1) young sailor, young sailors; 2) a humorous address to a comrade who is younger in service, etc.
MALE - this is the name given to the first boats with fairings of towed flexible hydroacoustic antennas. Apparently, for the shape of this fairing on the upper vertical rudder, as they said, “on the tail,” which was then a curiosity compared to other boats, “females” by definition of the feminine gender, among which they were initially in a clear minority.
SAMOVAR – 1) heat exchanger; 2) more common - ship-based water desalination plant.
SAMOTOP is a ship, a vessel with questionable seamanship and an unpredictable state of technical equipment.
SAMOKHOD – unauthorized absence.
SELF-PRODELLED - an unauthorized person who committed unauthorized absence and was caught doing so.
SAMPO – independent training.
BOOT - army soldier.
SACHOK is a slacker, a lazy person.
TO SNAP - to sit back, evade service.
SLIP – successfully dodge something.
SBV - freely bottled currency, ship's alcohol.
SVERCHOK – long-term conscript, foreman of long-term service.
SOWS – antenna of the RTR station for detecting signals from operating radars. The sensors, of which there are a large number, look similar to the nipples of a pig.
GIVE UP LIKE AN EMPTY DISH - 1) blab about something you shouldn’t; 2) unobtrusively tell your superiors negative information about someone.
SHIFT DATE (time) to the left (to the right) – moving the appointed time to an earlier or later date, respectively.
SECRET - secretary, clerk of the secret part.
HERRING – a statutory uniform tie with an elastic band.
GRAY – inexperienced, incompetent, amateur, with low maritime culture; 2) extreme degree: “gray, like fireman’s pants”
SOOWER - a large stand of “beloved propaganda”, made without any special semantic load and with a minimum of artistic taste - just “to be” (Derived from the “sower” Ostap Bender.)
SIGNAL “Vityaz” - said either by the commander going ashore, having previously preoccupied his officers with a long-term task, or by his subordinates, looking enviously after him. “Signal “Vityaz” - I went, and you... (work)!” This is roughly what this comment looks like in printed form.
SIGNAL “TO DEPARTURE” - the command “at attention!” when the commander leaves the ship in the evening, accompanied by three treasured calls, or the lights are turned off in the chief’s office at the formation headquarters. After this signal, it is recommended to abandon unfinished business and quickly, quickly or “buki-buki” go home. They haven't bothered with anything yet.
“CIGAR” - this is what the submarine is sometimes called
SITTING - being on a ship as part of the duty shift or to eliminate one’s own shortcomings. On the initiative of the authorities, of course. And what’s interesting is just like in the operetta by J. Strauss “Die Fledermaus”: it seems that you can sit, you can drive and train your favorite personnel, you can regulate, disassemble and assemble, just like a Kalashnikov assault rifle, the complex systems of your management, you can engage expansion of your own erudition, sitting or lying in the cabin, or even sleeping peacefully, but you are still “sitting”! Anyway...
SITTING ON THE EQUATOR - to be without money, “broke”, to find yourself in a difficult financial situation.
BLUE BIRD is a bird, chicken or duck, the frozen carcasses of which, supplied by food suppliers to ships, clearly have an otherworldly blue cast.
ORPHAN - one who receives everything that is and is not due before others, bypassing existing rules, enjoying the special favor of his superiors.
ORPHAN MUG - a large porcelain tea mug with a capacity of 0.5 liters or so in the cabin or at the combat post - warhead command post, intended for drinking tea or coffee while on watch. Boiling water is obtained using a prohibited household boiler hidden somewhere nearby.
SYSTEM – military school.
WORK SYSTEM – 1) a special style of official activity; 2) a style of activity developed somewhere “at the top”, perceived by someone there as a revelation from God and imposed on everyone “at the bottom” indiscriminately.
DRAFT. Going to a “draft” means a double day off, say, from Saturday to Monday. Obtaining permission for a double day off for special merits.
SCOTOCLYSM - a stormy analysis of the sailors' misconduct by the superiors. However, why? And not necessarily only sailors!
SCROOGE - from the English "miser" - assistant commander for supply, assistant on a submarine, all sorts of battalions, clothing and food, assigned to keep accountable material goods from the crew's aspirations to live somehow better and more fun...
HID - stopped monitoring a target that went beyond the area of responsibility (coast surveillance service)
SKYR - patrol ship, SKR. Comes from a famous joke about Vovochka with the key phrase: “Who is “skr”?”
HEARER is a special tool for mechanics. A tube with a bell used to listen to the operation of mechanisms. Only experienced mechanics know how to use it; the rest pretend to understand.
LEAVE – 1) leave the same place, start moving; 2) remove the anchor, mooring lines, this is already a term; 3) leave the coastal observation post, from the ship in the roadstead to the base.
DOG, DOG WATCH - a night watch, when you can’t sleep at night, and you won’t get enough sleep afterwards... In short, you get tired like a dog and inevitably become angry and biting.
TO COMMIT SAUTE - organize a violent “washing” of some joyful event in the team in the middle of the work week and, as a result, disable your colleagues for the entire next working day, in any case, significantly reduce their combat effectiveness until lunchtime.
SOPLIVCHIK - a sailor's uniform tie.
GET STARTED – 1) allow a reckless act or a series of such acts; 2) run out of patience and express to your boss or subordinate everything that you have wanted for a long time.
NEIGHBORS – interacting forces, nearby compounds and parts.
SOCIALIST ENTREPRENEURSHIP – (also a HAP-METHOD, which is also one of the varieties of this very S.P.). The ability to receive (by the way, the word “receive”, meaning some benefits or property necessary for the life and combat readiness of one’s boat (ship), was not in use - one could only receive a penalty, “wick” - a headache, etc. ..d..), or rather, to get (“I got it, found it, forcibly left - if they had caught up, they would have given it!”) something that you are entitled to, but neither you have nor in the warehouse. It’s even better to get what you need, but are not yet entitled to, write off what you supposedly have, but in fact have not had for a long time, and a new one is already necessary and desirable. The solution to these problems was achieved through the use of ship's "awl" and products for other purposes, and by stimulating various useful connections with the right people. The solution to these problems was approved, but on the condition that the means of achieving the goals would remain officially unknown to the command. For it, the command, could not encourage such illegal and semi-criminal actions, this in cases where this entrepreneur acted in the interests of the ship, and not in his own personal interests. Otherwise...
ALLIES - construction troops.
UNION OF THE SWORD AND PHALAHAHAHA – 1) comprehensive use of educational and administrative-punitive measures against the offender, including the classic “gouging” in an energetic verbal form and “cutting with a saber” of his financial joys in the form of all conceivable rewards; 2) a warm meeting with the chefs at a friendly table.
I WANT TO SLEEP, AND I FEEL SORRY FOR HOMELAND! – the struggle between base desires and a sense of duty during a shift.
SPECIAL – 1) special hold, on nuclear submarines – a specialist in servicing reactor compartment systems; 2) a high-class professional; 3) the so-called special tailoring - a working jacket and trousers with batting for those on top watch at sea.
SPETSAK is a vulgarized form of “special tailoring”. See above, point 3.
SPIRTYAK, alcohol bread – a long-lasting loaf of bread based on special alcohol technology.
SPACE is a cryptographer specialist. Derived from the official abbreviation "SPS". No other specialty has so many mockingly ironic “decodings”! In general, delving into the problem, it should be noted that only I know of several unofficial sailor “decodings” of this abbreviation, for example: “specially prepared net”, “sleep while you sleep”, “service passed you by”, “the most p... ( in the sense - good) service”, etc.
MIDDLE PASSAGE - in coastal units and training units - the space between the rows of beds in the barracks, the corridor.
CONGRESSED - something coincided, for example, the calculated position of the ship with its actual one, or the predicted results with the actual ones, i.e. the actions to adjust the actual results to the required ones were finally crowned with success.
SRM - Mediterranean Sea.
CUT down - remove, remove, destroy.
STAPERSTAT or “old man”, “persyuk” or “pi...duk” (dismissively, towards not the best people), “sergeant major of the first article” - corresponds to the rank of “sergeant” in the army.
WALL - a permanent berth equipped with mooring bollards and battens, rubber fenders, etc., a concrete berth front of the harbor, as opposed to floating or wooden berths.
DEGREES OF INtoxication (since ancient times) - under the trysails - “slightly drunk”, under the reefed topsails - “more seriously, swaying slightly,” dropped the anchor - “that’s it, fell off.”
NO STOP - he has no “stop” at all, that is, a person who does not control his behavior in some way is “groovy” for aggression or drinking. And in everything else...
STACOLISM is a derivative of “GLASS”. Washing something in close company.
STRATEG is a strategic nuclear-powered missile submarine.
SCARY - a prefix to the ranks of “sailor”, “midshipman” or “lieutenant”. Deliberate distortion of pronunciation. And this makes a lot of sense: with receiving (or about to receive) this title, the “client” is convinced of his high professional qualifications, his experience and social significance. However, most often this is not true or not entirely true. Hence - incidents, mistakes and even more serious consequences - accidents and crimes. The difference between these various service categories lies in the scope and objects of application of their wide knowledge and vast experience.
STRIPTIZE – 1) to designate, announce something; 2) conduct demonstration actions; 3) be in plain sight without protection or cover; 4) attract to a false object, red herring, disinformation.
BUILD, IN BUILDING - materiel in formation. This refers to the technical readiness of weapons and equipment for their intended use. Personnel and equipment ready for use without restrictions.
STUKACH - a sound signaling device on a practical torpedo.
CHEST – 1) super-conscript foreman, midshipman. The source of this expression must be the fact that this was the name given to boatswains, non-commissioned officers of the old Russian fleet, because only non-commissioned officers and above were allowed to have a “chest” as a storage of personal belongings. There was not much furniture in the cabins of sailing ships; in addition to the owner, onboard guns could easily have been comfortably placed there, secured with rolling hoists at the battened-down cannon port. And then the chest was an ordinary and necessary (and even mandatory!) part of camp life. As follows from the historical and memoir literature of the 19th century, the sea chest had to meet fairly stringent requirements. Like many things in the Navy, it was traditional, functional. For example, it should have legs - so that dampness does not get into the chest, the bottom should be wider than the top lid - to make it more comfortable to sit on, the lock should be made of copper - so as not to rust in damp conditions, it should play music when opening - so that a thief does not I was able to open it unnoticed. When going ashore for a long time, the chest was delivered to the place of residence of the sailor, including the officer, for which it had to have two encircled belt loops - handles. And when the joys of the vacation ended, they went back or to another ship, to a new destination. Apparently, the chest was the envy of those who had no right to it, and the mocking “chest” in relation to non-commissioned officers was an indicator of social status; 2) a package of missile launch containers on some ships.
ADVERSE - adversary, enemy, rival in exercises.
DRY WASH - an emergency, forced choice of the least dirty shirt from stale shirts in the absence of washing conditions or during a protracted business trip. Or because of impenetrable laziness. (Which is extremely rare for a sailor!)
Sukhar is the name of a civilian dry cargo ship.
DEPARTURE - leaving the ship, usually home or on vacation. To be at a gathering is to be at home, to be on a legal day off.
SIMILAR SHIFT - a shift of officers, midshipmen, etc., who have the right, after the end of the working day, as well as all general events, to leave the ship before the appointed time. This is provided that they successfully completed the tasks of the commander, first mate, deputy and their commanders of combat units and received the go-ahead
SLOPE – slow down the process. This refers to the vigorous creation of artificial problems on the way to something new and useful. Especially for you personally. FOLLOW - to miss, to miss a profitable or successful moment, to miss something.
TATAR-MONGOL HORDE (irritated, hopeless, joyless, contemptuous) 1) a temporary formation of military personnel of various units and ships, created to solve economic problems for a short period of time; 2) ships with different hydroacoustic stations, collected into one KPUG, with which it is difficult to organize classical search operations; 3) ships with various types of missile systems and artillery systems, with which it is very difficult to organize the massive use of weapons and an equal distribution of fire across defense sectors during a sea crossing; 4) a collection of heterogeneous equipment for various unknown purposes.
TASH - comrade, a sailor's address to a senior. In order to prevent a further decline in subordination, we recommend an answer no less severe than: “you are not “dragging”!
TASCH, CHERCHE? - “comrade... may I ask permission?” (sailor's address to an officer or midshipman)
TENDRA - Tendra spit in the Black Sea, in the Ochakov area.
AUNT – woman, wife, friend.
TEKHUPOR - the technical department of the fleet, those who are responsible for technical readiness, distribute responsibility for all technical “stucks” of the material part between the corresponding superiors and for the scanty reserves of spare parts, technical equipment and skipper’s property - between formations and even individual ships, and also carries out a huge work on writing off and recycling everything that was once issued, and everything that somehow survived from Soviet times.
MOTHER-IN-LAY EATS ICE CREAM - the emblem of the medical service on the shoulder straps and buttonholes of military doctors, as well as on the doors and gates of everything that relates to this service.
QUIET OMUT is a remote, hard-to-reach garrison, a separate unit.
TKA - torpedo boat.
Pacific Fleet - Pacific Fleet.
TREKHFLAGKA - a three-flag set of signals for controlling ships.
TSH, minesweeper - a warship designed to search and destroy sea mines.
BRAKE is a very thoughtful soldier.
TORPEDO ATTACK - passing bacteriological tests by galley crew and cooks.
BROADCAST – 1) ship broadcast system; 2) the room where this system is located, from where the broadcast is carried out.
HARASSMENT – 1) chatter, chatter, lies. The expression: “Lie to the end!”, that is, “Lie to the end!” This is when it may be a fiction, but an interesting one; 2) filling forced free time with conversations, stories about the past, both real and fictional. They say that this is purely naval psychotechnics, old and proven. Evening championship in oral folklore - tales, anecdotes, funny stories. Especially when anchored or during free hours at sea. All categories of personnel participate, both individually and together. A kind of psychological relief.
POISH – 1) lie, chat, tell stories; 2) vomit, manifestation of the gag reflex; 3) loosen (tension), EMBRACE - give slack, give the opportunity to rest, defuse the situation.
BEAM, “STAND ON THE BEAM” - to be opposite some place or permanent landmark - for example, “beam of the lighthouse”
Ladder - a watchman at the gangway.
MSWLEENERS - minesweepers as a type of ship or those who serve on them.
SOBE HEAD - the senior on board, the support shift officer, who must drink only peaceful drinks (tea, coffee, mineral water, etc.), no matter what momentum the ship's holiday gathers for any reason and no matter what guests demand from him to confirm respect for him. Note: They say that this iron rule is now completely outdated.
THREE RINGS - this translates as: “three green beeps in the fog,” that is, a signal meaning that the commander has left the ship; also mean that some of his subordinates can also, without unnecessary noise, sit in his wake to resolve personal issues on shore. These same three calls, but indicating the arrival of the commander on the ship, sharply increase the vigilance of the crew and the level of imitation of violent activity. For non-naval readers: Three bells are not a tribute of respect or honor, it is a signal to the crew that the commander has arrived on the ship and has taken control of it, upon departure - that the senior officer has taken control of the ship, and it is he who will now lead the fight for survivability, etc. if something happens. So that the crew is not tormented by doubts about who to obey.
THREE GREEN HOOMS IN THE FOG – 1) a conventional signal of unknown meaning; 2) signal. Conventional words that have a second, true meaning for a limited group, in order to get rid of unwanted elements.
THREE SISTERS, to fall under the “three sisters” – there is nothing frivolous or funny here. These are three consecutive, largest waves during a storm or hurricane. The first wave throws up and loosely secured loads are torn off, the second tosses it up and sharply throws it under the third, the third covers it. If you do not have time to prepare and the angle of meeting with these “sisters” is chosen incorrectly, the waves can break the ship’s hull or, at least, knock out the front windows. Even at the running post, which is always located quite high.
TROIKA – this means “uniform No. 3”, a formal dress uniform. To walk along the “troika” means to be dressed in this same uniform No. 3.
THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL is the shortest route from point A to point B, bypassing checkpoints, checkpoints and asphalt paths, through holes in fences and wire. Now few young people will remember who Ho Chi Minh was and what kind of trails they were, but the name still lives on.
TROPICHA - a tropical form of clothing that includes a cap, jacket and shorts, as well as “slippers with holes,” that is, light sandals with many holes for ventilation.
TUBE - 1) submarine, TRUMPETERS - submariners. A disparaging name for submarines and submariners in the mouths of surface wardens; 2) telephone handset. Here too, naval priority. Speaking pipes appeared in the navy even before telephones - on ships and coastal batteries.
HOLD – hold (generalized concept), holds (pronunciation feature)
BILGE MACHINES – specialists in the maintenance of bilge systems.
TRUMWINE - “not wine, but shit!”
TUGUMENTS – documents.
TURBINKA is an abrasive tool with a pneumatic drive. A necessary thing when carrying out preparatory work for painting the hull and superstructures, cleaning the underwater part from any underwater rot when docked. The extraction of these turbines requires great “socialist entrepreneurship”; the possession of them in large quantities indicates the good organizational skills of the first mate, his communication skills and wide connections in the management of the chief builder.
TYULKIN FLEET – 1) small ships and vessels; 2) small fishing vessels.
PRISON OF PEOPLES - there was once such a propaganda cliche, meaning imperialism, some kind of empires, etc. In the navy, or rather, among cadets of naval schools (in the 60-80s), light artillery cruisers were called this mockingly (cruisers) of the KChF “Felix Dzerzhinsky” (the first ship of the Soviet Navy with an experimental air defense system) and “Admiral Ushakov”, “Zhdanov”, on which cadets of all VVMU of the European part of the USSR underwent so-called cruising practice. The living and living conditions there were, frankly and to put it mildly, Spartan; they stood on a roadstead in the middle of the bay, which decisively limited the freedom of the freedom-loving cadets.
HEAVY ARTILLERY – 1) strong drinks. Their use increases the likelihood of quickly bringing guests (or various types of inspectors) to a non-working state. The last argument before drawing up a mutually beneficial act or when persuading someone to do the right thing; 2) use of the influence of high command.
TYAPNITSA, also known as nursery - Friday, joyfully celebrating the end of the working week. Some people call Monday a “hangover”, but this, brothers, is too much! Of course, Monday is no better than Friday, but... You still need to work sometime!
GUESSING - an evening or morning report, a kind of summing up, when you need to clearly and intelligently answer stupid and sudden questions, the essence of which you still have the most general understanding of.
PUNISH - (and derivatives) to punish, to inflict reprimand.
NARROWNESS – entrance to a bay, strait, closed water area.
KNOT - the speed of a ship, equal to a mile per hour.
“GO UNDER THE HORIZON” – drown.
CAPING – airtight container, container. Typically related to weapons and ammunition.
FELL - left the connection, hung up the phone, disconnected. It comes from the design of ancient telephone sets, on which such a special feature fell when disconnected.
UPASRANTSY – a mockingly poisonous derivative of UPASR (emergency rescue management). A very serious organization, whose employees are corrosive and practically incorruptible guys of increased harmfulness. Probably because human lives really stand behind their signatures and approvals, and that is why they are picky about equipment and the preparation of various special equipment. But the commanders and mechanics they inspect suffer from this (morally and financially), which does not add brotherly love to the “upasrans” among the naval service people. Therefore, the absolute majority of the ship's people are convinced that their activities are entirely devoted to... (let's say: to do something to their neighbor). Hence the name.
Settle down - calm down, return to normal.
IRON – a large heavy ship; 1) this is how the first iron and steel ships that replaced wooden sailing ships were called in the Russian fleet; 2) a new word: a 1.75 liter bottle with a handle, so called for its vague external resemblance to an iron.
US – coastal communication center.
UCHEBKA - training detachment.
SONG AND DANCE SCHOOL - so envious people (mainly mechanics and Caspians called VVMUPP named after Lenin Komsomol, known to everyone as “Lenkom”, freely deciphering the last two letters “P” in the abbreviation.
Black Sea Fleet - Black Sea Fleet.
F-TREPLO - the unit's flagship specialist in mine-torpedo and anti-submarine weapons, a humorous derivative of the colloquial expression "F-3-PLO" PHASE, pendant - electricians on the ship.
PLYWOOD, PLYWOOD FLYS – 1) rumor, unreliable information; 2) flat chest.
FESTIVAL – certain cheerful consequences, a logical continuation of the “bachelor party”. Noisy party.
FINIC - a financier, officer or midshipman of the financial service or acting as a freelance specialist of the financial service, receiving money at the cash desk and distributing allowances on the ship.
WICK – 1) insert “wick” – now an expression of general use meaning scolding or reprimanding. But its origin is originally naval. Once upon a time, in the darkness of the historical origins of the fleet, when there were no multi-flag codes of signals yet, the flagship, expressing dissatisfaction with the maneuver of the squadron ship, ordered that the name of this ship and the lit and smoking fuse, visible from afar, be raised “to its place.” Everything immediately became very clear to the captain of this ship. The expression “the fuse is still smoking” means that this boss is still under the impression of what happened, and it is better not to meddle with your problems; 2) the ship's projectionist, a popular person and irreplaceable on the ship, especially on weekends. Derived from the name of a once popular film magazine. Later, with the widespread introduction of VCRs, the social status of this freelance position fell sharply, since you don’t need intelligence and special knowledge to shove a cassette into the jaws of a shabby VCR; even the lowest fool is capable of this.
CHICK – 1) switch, switch handle; 2) a feature of a person’s personality or behavior.
FKP is the ship's flagship command post.
FLAZHOK – flagship specialist.
FLOTILLIA - an operational-strategic group of ships.
FLAGSHIP MUSCLE – head of physical training and sports of the corresponding unit.
FLAGSHIP TURNIP – flagship specialist.
FLANKA - a uniform shirt made of flannel.
FLEET - to serve in the navy, not in the navy, as they say in feature films and on television. Features of slang.
FLEET COMMANDERS is a generalized name for father-commanders, most often mechanics, especially after strong-willed but not well-thought-out decisions.
NAVAL JEW - usually means navigator, boatswain, pilot, tanker. Sometimes a dockmaster. Names of naval specialties that sound vaguely similar to the corresponding surnames.
FONIT - this is what they say when: 1) the microphone and RS create noise that clogs the transmission; 2) an increased background radiation level is observed; 3) information of a confidential nature is disseminated by an unknown source.
PHOTOGRAPHER is a generalized name for commanders who, during their visit or following the results, say to many of the lower-level commanders: “I’m taking pictures of you!” This means from a position. And some, who are higher, also carry out their threat, not in the least interested in where and who the commanders of the formations will take to fill this vacancy and what will come of it.
FORSAGE, in afterburner - very quickly, at a fast pace or even completely running, accelerated.
THE “HORSE” UNIFORM is a transitional form of clothing, when they begin to wear a peakless cap with an overcoat. With a long, rough overcoat, a peakless cap does not look very aesthetically pleasing. Sailors are not very fond of this uniform, which is why it has such a disparaging name.
FORM "ZERO" - the absence of any signs of any clothing on the body. It is announced during formations for a medical examination of personnel before washing in the bathhouse, for the presence of “combat and operational damage” on the bodies of sailors, especially the youngest of them... As well as signs of all kinds of skin diseases, lice, etc.
FOFAN - 1) a very free verbal derivative form of a sweatshirt. Warm outer work clothes; 2) click on the head.
FRIGATE – patrol ship, TFR
FRUIT QUESTION - a state of temporary, often forced idleness, filled with insignificant and completely unnecessary matters. What is meant is the expression “hanging around pear trees with a certain part of the male body,” which usually has a different purpose.
FURA is the familiar name for a uniform cap.
FURANKA is a disparaging name for a cap, implying its poor quality.
FUNCTION (functions) – work, (works, operates, functions)
HAP-METHOD, constructed using the hap-method, is a loosely derived expression from the phrase “economic method.” There was such a way to build or repair coastal buildings, restore auxiliary vessels, create various classrooms and offices using our own personnel and from funds that were not officially allocated for these purposes, through semi-legal in-kind exchange, mutual agreements and other non-standard economic decisions.
BRAGING OF DINNER (LUNCH, BREAKFAST) is a manifestation of the gag reflex due to pumping.
HIMONA, HIMOZA – head of the chemical service, chemist. There is also a “khimonchik” - a chemical service sailor.
KHIMGANDON – (loosely derived from “condom”) protective rubber overalls or rubber raincoat in chemical protection kits.
BREAD SLICER – 1) mouth, jaws; 2) a room for storing and cutting bread.
WALK - walk, (swim) in the sea. To say to swim is a manifestation of bad taste; it’s like a shot in the ear for a sailor. Hence, “long voyage” is more often pronounced than long voyage. In the merchant fleet it is the other way around.
WALKING AT THE MOOSE - going out to track the submarine of the “adversary”, driving it away from the areas of the BP of our forces.
XP - GKP - wheelhouse, the main command post of the ship.
TO THE FUCK WITH HER, WITH GREENLAND! - a key phrase from an old, old joke from the time of the introduction of missiles with nuclear warheads and all the electronics and “red buttons” associated with it. Implies, in a deliberately exaggerated way, the same naval wisdom: “It’s not your responsibility - don’t touch it! Otherwise, you suddenly press the wrong red button - and really: “To hell with Greenland!” Now go and tell the political officer, let him cross it out on the map!“
HROMACHI – sailor boots made of chrome leather.
KHURAL (may also be “great x.” or “big x.”, “small x.”) - meeting, consultation, military council.
KHURKHOYAROVKA (or something very similar) is a remote garrison, a military base somewhere far from cultural and industrial centers.
GOAL - any discovered flying or floating object (this is at sea), on the shore - an interesting woman met for the first time, the prospects for a relationship with whom have not yet been determined and are subject to prompt development.
CIRCUS – 1) an unprepared combat training event; 2) actions of an unprepared crew, team, crew; 3) analysis of this event by a boss who has not only power and the necessary experience, but also a heightened sense of humor. The latter has a beneficial effect on the quality of assimilation of the lesson received by subordinates.
CIRCULIA - specialists of the navigational combat unit.
TsKP, the ship's central command post - the ship's protected command post.
CIRCULATE – 1) turn, change course; 2) walk in circles, walk around something; 3) describe circulation - that is, walk along a circular arc, avoiding some obstacle. For example, your boss, to whom you must report something, but there is nothing to report yet.
TsU – 1) target designation. Give a command center - indicate the direction, set a task, orient; 2) valuable instructions from the boss on how to complete the task; there are also EBTSU - that is, “Even more valuable instructions” from an even higher boss.
MARINE SEAGULL - a crow, a large raven, a competitor of seagulls in the fight for prey in the coastal zone and in garrison garbage dumps.
CHALKS - mooring lines, mooring ends. Throw the jalleys - moor.
HUMAN WOODPECKER - one of the highest degrees of the word “fool” - a disguised curse when you want to emotionally characterize someone and at the same time avoid insulting someone with openly obscene words.
CHEMERGES is a drink made from alcohol, infused with some fruits and berries, herbs, roots, incredible other additives and supposedly suggesting an inevitable, incredible beneficial effect on strengthening the body and increasing the combat readiness of male strength. There are a good fifty recipes, in each brigade. Drink not in teaspoons, but in glasses.
THROUGH “LIVE” - do everything wrong, “exactly the opposite.” An allusion to an ancient, always popular in the navy, but fundamentally incorrect method of operating on the tonsils.
BLACK TRIANGLE is an anatomical concept, sometimes observed live, as well as in various types of fine art and photographs of naked women. It is quite rightly suspected that this is the same non-geographical, treacherous place where the thoughts of all sailors (and not only them!) in their free time and most of their service time inexplicably converge. As a result of this, accidents, breakdowns occur, casualties and destruction occur, and criminal offenses are committed. If a serviceman clearly violated the naval rule: “think before you do something!” and as a result he did something, but claims that while he was still thinking, at that moment his thoughts were precisely in the “black triangle”.
CHEPA or CHAPA - emergency generator, low power diesel.
SKULL (respectful) – a recognized mind, a specialist, a competent person.
SKULL - to solve some kind of intellectual problem, desperately straining the contents of the skull, in those who have it, or the skull itself - in other cases.
HONESTLY STEALED – illegal, semi-legal personal “strategic” emergency supply of any obscenities. funds for various “every” professional and life occasion. (For example, stew for barter and exchange transactions with ship repair workers or payment for their services, various unaccounted skipper and technical consumable property for unforeseen complications and profitable exchange with a neighboring ship, etc.)
CLEANING TEAPOTS (and all sorts of derivatives) - analysis of the behavior of personnel and all sorts of conceivable and inconceivable violations of all kinds of instructions, as well as emotional instruction for the future.
READING - this refers to the reading of orders from higher authorities, bringing various documents and events to the broad masses of officers. Mandatory periodic event.
CHK – 1) private apartment, also known as a safe house. A place where you can relax a little or really relax in pleasant company. And where you think that you won’t be found, at least by your wife and bosses; 2) peeling of potatoes by the consumable department.
ARTHOPOD - a characteristic of a person. According to the speaker, the object of observation has legs that serve only to carry his own penis to the place of use and combat use. Three interpretations are possible: 1) positive – a womanizer; 2) neutral - a comrade who is somewhat more sexually preoccupied than others; 3) negative - a primitive person with only one developed “basic instinct”
TO BE REMEMBERED - this is no longer a popular TV show, but a demonstrative beating to the foolish Khazars for various exploits. It is carried out before the formation of the entire formation or crew of the ship, usually after weekends and holidays. The event is called educational work.
TO SHINE LIKE A CAT'S EGGS! – setting the personnel to a high-quality level of tidy. This refers to the shine of copper and chrome-plated parts of ladders, deck mechanisms, coamings, etc. No one has seen this same shine on the above-mentioned standard, but the expression has lived on for more than one generation.
FEELING “F” is a soft, printed form of an expression that means having self-control. And somewhere even at the level of intuition. This is a feeling of approaching danger or a clear sense of the limit at which one must stop when certain norms and rules are violated, or a moment in time when it is necessary to stop inactivity and begin to do something intensively in the light of one’s duties on the ship or in the unit.
MIRACLE WORKER – 1) a boss who constantly experiments on his subordinates; 2) a serviceman, the results of which may be completely unpredictable.
CHUMICHKA - pouring spoon, ladle - from the set of dishes on the sailor's table. Previously, it was an instrument cast from aluminum, weighing a good 700-800 grams and could well be used as a weapon in boarding combat, and not only.
HAT – 1) emission of smoke from chimneys and exhaust manifolds; 2) incontinence of “winds” in a soldier during sleep; 3) geographic latitude of the place.
HAT WITH A HANDLE - winter headdress of a captain of the 1st rank and a Navy colonel made of black astrakhan with a visor. In status and significance, it is analogous to a land colonel’s hat, therefore, even after the formal exclusion from clothing items in 1997, this element did not disappear from circulation and is obtained by newly minted captains of the 1st rank by hook or by crook, from secret reserves or is sewn to order from folk craftsmen , instantly filling this niche in the emerging demand with their supply. They say that many of them strive to get it also because the karakul in its design is externally reminiscent of and, probably, somewhat compensates for some of the convolutions of the brain that have already been lost after a long service.
SHAR – 1) a radio-transparent radome for the radar antenna on some ships. On other ships, for example on MRK, it is called very indecently, due to its distant external resemblance; 2) a document or speech containing only general phrases.
SHARA, on the ball - the opportunity to get something without much effort, in the sense, for nothing (generally used)
SHAER, from “ShR” - plug connector.
MOORING mittens - canvas mittens for the sailors of the mooring crew or winter fur mittens covered with tarpaulin, used for the same purposes. It is impossible to do without them either due to safety precautions or common sense. These are precisely the items that are endlessly lost.
MOOR! - sit down, come over.
THE SIXTH QUESTION is usually a question dedicated to understanding the first five questions identified in a large meeting, with a glass in hand, together with colleagues in a cozy place. Often even semi-officially.
SIX BALLS is the highest rating for something. Comes from one of the signals of the ancient naval arch.
CHEVRONS - gold stripes made of gilded braid, sewn on the sleeves of jackets and jackets of ship officers and denoting the ranks of officers.
NAVIGATION ROOM - point of the navigator's combat unit.
SHYLO – alcohol. A liquid desperately needed in the Navy. Seriously, for devices and equipment in conditions of dampness, incurable corrosion of metals and chronically low insulation resistance, you can’t think of anything better, nothing can replace it, at least in the foreseeable future. And also for people. A frozen, wet, drenched, chilled person (if he was also caught overboard, which sometimes happens!) cannot be drunk or warmed up with tea alone, and, of course, you cannot quickly return him to battle formation! With this “awl” you could poke a hole in the wall of misunderstanding of your needs and the needs of some specific individuals working in the supply sector, with its help you could solve some technical problems, as well as establish a decent level of business cooperation and human understanding with new useful people. Now, they say, these same issues are being resolved in more materially tangible (for officials) ways and means. Slowly but surely, Slavic traditions are being replaced by a Western utilitarian approach, when the traditional “treat” gives way to a banal monetary bribe.
A SHEWMAN is an item that has nothing to do with the shoemaking and sewing craft. Usually this is a flat metal flask for storing “shil”, that is, alcohol. For both personal and business use. For service use, these are canisters and even stainless steel barrels. But for personal use, these are different flat flasks. Particularly appreciated were the Severodvinsk-made 0.5 and 0.75 liter bottles, which were beautifully and reliably made and fit perfectly into the breast and side pockets of an overcoat. That is why flat flasks were needed - for their ability to mimic the background of the relief of a soldier’s chest or stomach. But they were sold only in Severodvinsk. Therefore, they were also ordered when parked “at the factory” in other workshops. As a rule, they cost “volume for volume,” that is, for a 0.5 liter flask you had to give the craftsman a bottle of alcohol. Now there are heaps of them in every store, and they were made somewhere abroad. But those were still better... This was another ready-made niche in the market, but hopelessly missed by our light industry.
SEWING AND SOAP ACCESSORIES - “personal hygiene items” - soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, washcloth, razor, etc. “Small gentleman’s set.”
SHIR-DYR - from “hat-dobro”, latitude-longitude, geographical coordinates of the ship’s location, any desired “point”
SHKENTEL - (word on call) the left flank of the formation, more precisely, the tail of the column.
SHKONKA (and derivatives) - sailor's bunk (the origin of the word is traced from prison-criminal slang)
HOSE is a well-known ship's lazy man and slacker, letting everything pass through himself, not retaining anything, and also possessing flexibility and elasticity in spite of his bosses, who can neither bend nor “build” him. After any impact, it will still return to its original state.
HOSE - sit back, shirk work.
TRAIL – 1) a negative trace of questionable actions in the official biography; 2) the smell of alcohol or fumes.
SHMONKA is a school for training specialists of the auxiliary fleet.
STATE - a sleeve patch worn by foremen of sailors and midshipmen, corresponding to a certain standard specialty and combat unit of the ship. Introduced into the Russian fleet in 1891.
STAFF – literally: people and material assets determined by the staffing table. Regular place - a place where someone or something should legally be. Established funds are the funds that should be available, no more, no less. Therefore, say, in a cafe, beer or wine are standard means, but vodka (or awl) from a source brought with you in a briefcase is already a means of enhancement.
NORMAL SITUATION - the state of the situation within the framework of expected events, ordinary, banal, standard, simple (or relatively simple) cases of naval service, provided for by all existing instructions and documents.
STORMTRAP - a rope ladder that is thrown from the side of a ship when necessary.
SHTURMANENOK – 1) commander of the electronic navigation group; 2) navigator electricians, there is such a specialty.
SHURIK, “let’s do it with Shurik” - very quickly, something needs to be done urgently.
JOKIC PLAN - daily plan. Named for its reality and closeness to everyday needs.
SKERCHE is a place or small room where you can hide or hide something. Separate room, partition, closet. Found even in the literature of the beginning of the century. Derivatives: prishherit - hide, conceal. To zashherit - to hide, hide, shove somewhere far away. Skherny - secretive, secret, incomprehensible.
ECOLOGICAL FOOTBALL is an event associated with attempts to drive away a dirty oil stain discovered early in the morning from one’s side to someone else’s, so that the bosses do not accuse the ship’s command of negligence and take punitive measures against it, which provokes the organization of various troubles down to the last bilge watchman. It is produced using water pressure from a fire hose, which is operated by a pair of sailors from the warhead-5. However, on neighboring ships they also do not have the slightest desire to admit their involvement in the origin of this oil or fuel and carry out a similar operation, trying to drive the stain back. This continues until it drifts somewhere. Let's say, to the third ship or to the neighboring pier.
ECOLOGIST – 1) an officer or military official dealing with environmental issues in garrisons, who, with varying degrees of success, fights off attacks from civilian ecologists, inspectors and public organizations, convincing them by personal example not to believe their eyes; 2) that officer who himself does not smoke and poisons the lives of all his smoking subordinates with this shortcoming, not allowing them to smoke in warm and comfortable places, and also giving some a reason for remorse associated with their inability to give up a bad habit.
SCREENER – manager of the ship’s television and video broadcasting system “Ekran” and its modifications.
ELDROBUS is a generalized name for personnel, also derived from the well-known abbreviation: “l/s”
EMPEK - (from MPK) small anti-submarine ship.
EROTICS AND DEVILITY - this is how the abbreviation of the maintenance and repair service (E and R) was jokingly deciphered. Now it is called E and V - exploitation and weapons. The wits now say – “eroticism and excitement”
EROTIC - that is, something is made and looks beautiful, even emphatically beautiful, with a sort of naval chic. For example, erotically painted sides and superstructures of a ship, a brilliantly prepared map of the situation for exercises and reports, etc. The antipode of this quality is called “pornography” or “naval pornography”
SOUTH, south is a broad geographical concept designating the southern regions of our country and, in general, everything south of the Kola Peninsula. Going to the south, especially in the summer, is everyone’s constant dream, regardless of age and length of service.
EGGS OF PERFORMANCE are special marks in different plans and schedules, symbolizing someone’s personal responsibility in a specific space-time continuum.
SQUARE EGGS – an omelette made from egg powder. It comes from the appearance of portioned pieces cut from an omelette baked on large baking sheets.
EGG YOLK is a requirement for the quality of tidy on deck. “So that it shines like an egg yolk!” - said the boatswain. This shine was achieved by frantically rubbing the wooden covering of the upper deck with crushed brick and other clever means. Their recipe was a kind of “technical secret” of a good chief boatswain. But this only made sense in relation to the wooden covering, which the last of the ships of our Navy possessed were light cruisers, in other words, the last classic artillery cruisers of the Soviet Navy. This expression lived on for some time, which had to be ironized. A black steel deck can be brought to the color of yolk, for example, only by causing it to somehow quickly rust
YASHKA - anchor. Expressions: stand on the “yashka”, give the “yashka”, throw the “yashka”, etc.
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Many ship modelers or simply those people who are interested in naval topics probably know about the existence of destroyers of the “Mechanical Engineer Zverev” type. Built (who would have thought!) in Germany, ten ships of this type served for a quarter of a century, first in the Russian Imperial Fleet and then in the Red Baltic Fleet, and took part in the First World War and the Civil War. From a technical point of view, the destroyers “Mechanical Engineer Zverev” were no different - ordinary 400-ton vessels with a crew of 70 people, armed with torpedoes and 75 mm guns. The workhorses of the fleet. But what kind of person was the mechanical engineer Zverev, whose name was given to a whole series of ships?
A hundred years ago, the position of a ship mechanic was not at all held in high esteem - in the hot darkness of boiler rooms and engine rooms, only people of “non-noble blood” worked. Even despite the awarding of officer ranks to mechanics* and a good education received within the walls of military engineering schools, for a long time they were not allowed to wear a dagger with their dress uniform. Construction workers, navigators and gunners treated their colleagues with some contempt - after all, until quite recently, the most complex ship mechanism was the windlass for the anchor chain.
*however, the ranks of the mechanics of the tsarist fleet also differed from the officers’ ranks and sounded completely unmilitary: junior mechanical engineer, senior mechanical engineer, flagship mechanical engineer, chief mechanical inspector.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, with the advent of steam engines and electric drives, mechanics became indispensable - now the outcome of a naval battle, and ultimately, the safety of the ship and the lives of the entire crew, depended on the serviceability of the mechanical part. One of the striking cases that forced the fleet command to reconsider its attitude towards ship mechanics was the feat of Vasily Vasilyevich Zverev.
On the night of March 14, 1904, the Japanese fleet attempted sabotage in the inner roadstead of the Port Arthur fortress. Four interdictor ships, under the cover of six destroyers, were supposed to break into the inner roadstead in a suicidal attack and flood, blocking the entrance to the base.
The enemy sneaking in the darkness was discovered by the patrol destroyer “Silny” under the command of Lieutenant Krinitsky - the Russian sailors without hesitation rushed to attack, turning the lead of the Japanese ships into a flaming torch. At the same moment, the Japanese discovered the Strong, whose silhouette was brightly illuminated by the flames of the fire on the Japanese ship.
And then the laws of dramaturgy came into play: one against six. There are no miracles - a stray Japanese shell pierced the casing in the area of the engine room, and shrapnel cut the steam line. The destroyer "Strong" turned into a stationary target.
Through the scalding steam, senior mechanical engineer Zverev was the first to run to the site of the damage to the steam pipeline. Grabbing a cork mattress that came to hand, he tried to throw it over a torn pipe from which a deadly stream of superheated steam was gushing. In vain - the mattress was thrown aside. Take a moment to think about how you can securely fix the patch? - Mechanical engineer Zverev lifted the mattress and threw himself onto the hot steam line, pressing his body tightly against it.
The next day, the whole of Port Arthur came out to bury Vasily Zverev, the sailor’s feat received a response abroad, French newspapers called the mechanical engineer Zverev the pride of Russia.
V.V. Zverev was born in 1865 in the city of Murom, a graduate of the Kronstadt Maritime School. In 1903, he was assigned to the destroyer Strong, where he was awarded the rank of senior mechanical engineer. For his feat he was posthumously awarded the Order of St. George, IV degree.
The work of ship mechanics was dangerous and difficult. The bilge crew, under the control of mechanical engineers, fought until the last for the survivability of the ship - often there was no time left to get to the upper deck and take a place in the boats. The battleship Oslyabya, which capsized during the Battle of Tsushima, carried 200 people of the engine crew to the bottom in its belly.
It’s scary to imagine what these people experienced in the last minutes of their lives - when the ship capsized, the engine room turned into a hellish crush, filled with screams of horror. In the pitch darkness, a hail of loose objects fell on the stokers and drivers, and the mechanisms that continued to rotate pulled in and tore the sailors to pieces. And at that moment water poured into the engine rooms...
The officers remained with their subordinates to the end - there was not a single mechanical engineer among the surviving members of the Oslyabi team. Here are the names of those who remained at their posts to the end: senior ship mechanic, Colonel N.A. Tikhanov, assistant ship mechanic Lieutenant G.G. Danilenko, junior mechanical engineer lieutenant L.A. Bykov, bilge mechanic Lieutenant P.F. Uspensky, junior mechanical engineer warrant officers S.A. Maystruk and V.I. Medvedchuk, machine conductors Evdokim Kurbashnev and Ivan Kobylov.
Longitudinal section of the battleship "Oslyabya". The location of the boiler rooms and engine rooms is clearly visible - in the event of a quick death of the ship, it is impossible to escape from there.
BC-5 - the heart of the ship
These days, the engine and boiler room team is called the "Electromechanical Combat Unit" or BC-5 for short.** It is difficult to describe the merits of these sailors, given the amount of power and auxiliary equipment on modern Navy ships, tens of kilometers of cables and pipelines, hundreds of valves and electrical panels.
The service became even more dangerous and responsible with the advent of nuclear power plants on ships - how many times, risking their lives, turbine operators, mechanics, and instrumentation specialists eliminated serious accidents and emergencies. On July 3, 1961, the reactor on the nuclear submarine K-19 depressurized. Volunteers from the boat crew assembled a pipeline for emergency cooling of the reactor using improvised materials. After just a few minutes spent next to the blazing heat of the reactor, people’s faces were swollen and foam was coming out of their mouths, but they continued to work with the welding machine. The accident was eliminated at the cost of the lives of 8 submariners, including the commander of the movement division, Yu.N. Povsteva.
Sailor Seryozha Perminin
Or the feat of the 20-year-old sailor of the special hold group Sergei Preminin from the submarine K-219, who manually extinguished the hellish nuclear flame. Having lowered all four grates, the sailor no longer had the strength to open the reactor compartment hatch, deformed from the high temperature. He went with the boat to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at a point with coordinates 31°28′01″ N. w. 54°41′03″ W d.
In October 2010, an accident occurred on the destroyer Bystry of the Pacific Fleet - a fuel line ruptured in the engine room. The hold began to burn hotly, and there was a threat of detonation of the fuel tanks - 300 people were one step away from death. 19-year-old boiler room operator Aldar Tsydenzhapov rushed headlong into the thick of it to shut off the fuel line. Burning alive, he managed to tighten the valve. Later, doctors determined that Aldar received a 100% burn to his body. It is difficult to find words of consolation for the relatives of the brave sailor - they were expecting a son from the army, not a Hero star.
**The Naval Charter of the Red Army of 1932 established the following procedure for organizing ship crews:
BC-1 - navigator's,
BC-2 – artillery (missile),
BC-3 – mine-torpedo,
BC-4 – communications,
BC-5 – electromechanical.
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On the shore of Strelok Bay, at the pier of the destroyer "Bystry", a sign in memory of the Hero of Russia, sailor Aldar Tsydenzhapov was unveiled
The segment of my life associated with the command of the combat communications unit of the Zhdanov KRU, a ship with unique control and communication means, I consider to be the most interesting years of service. And the point is not only in the uniqueness of the equipment, but also in the fact that during this period wonderful people served in the combat communications unit: officers, midshipmen, foremen and sailors.
I must say that throughout my entire service on the cruiser I often heard arguments, rather rhetorical, about what is more important to the ship: the artillery warhead with its main caliber of 152 mm, or the communications warhead, which is a medium-sized communications center. I am not inclined to downplay the role of artillery; any ship needs it. At the same time, because of it, the quality of communication really suffered, and the signalmen fighting for this quality suffered. And the reason lay in only one thing: barrels of various calibers, artillery installations, powerful vibrations during their rotation and salvos, the operation of artillery radars - all this led to strong sparks and interference. That's why I'm a proponent of a clean upper deck for control ships. I know very well that the same problems arise on any ship that has more than three radio transmitters. Well, what can we say about the control cruiser with its 17 radio transmitters, one of which is five-kilowatt.
About the main caliber of BC-2 and BC-4
Terrible power is the main caliber of the cruiser. In order to understand this, you just need to look at the heavy heavy projectile, at the charge (a kind of endless bag of gunpowder), and listen to the unique roar made by gunfire. Any firing with the main caliber required thorough preparation of the entire ship from bow to stern. It began with the officer on watch giving the command over all ship broadcast lines: “Prepare the ship for main-caliber firing.” At this command, the premises managers removed all lampshades from the lamps, unscrewed the light bulbs, leaving only emergency lighting. The colossal vibrations that occur during a salvo have always led to all sorts of problems. These are failures of material parts, malfunctions of electronics, communications, even fires due to short circuits in electrical cables. The emergency parties had enough work.
In the communications command post, located next to the first main caliber turret, the most unpleasant thing was the blow to the heels during a salvo. Therefore, the entire personnel of the forward communication posts sat with their legs crossed. If there was something hidden on the ceiling in the post, then it would definitely fall on someone’s head, be it a cigarette butt or an ashtray from a tin can. There were cases when bolts and rivets flew out of the bulkheads, whistling past the tender backs of their heads.
It is interesting that the gunners of the main caliber towers themselves were in the thickness of the armor when firing and did not experience any sensations. The watch officer of the running watch suffered the most. In preparation for shooting, all plexiglass barriers were dismantled. That is, the watch officer remained on the bridge without glazing. There was about ten meters of free space before the guns of the second main caliber turret were cut down. I can describe my feelings. A few minutes before the start of the shooting, the commander and first mate went to the conning tower, not forgetting to instruct the watch officer about navigation safety. In addition to the watch, there remained on the bridge a radio operator, a radiometrician and a messenger. The first salvo of both towers with all barrels (burning grease) was the most shocking. It felt like something akin to a knockout blow from a very soft glove. The eyes suffered the most, since it took some time for the lens to return to its original shape and vision to be restored. Despite some unpleasant sensations, the radio operator and I could not stop laughing, seeing how with each salvo not only garbage fell from somewhere above, but also rats fell. Somersaulting, they flew straight overboard from the wings of the bridge. After burning the lubricant, volleys of practical shells began, and the target was zeroed in. The noise became even greater. When the shooting was over, the commander cheerfully emerged from the conning tower.
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Still, the real main caliber of the cruiser was the Kristall-K space communications complex (after modernization at the Ordzhonikidze plant in 1980). Why the main one? Yes, because after modernization, most of the tasks assigned to the cruiser began to concern exclusively the performance of communication functions, which is understandable, because the Crystal provided high-quality communications simultaneously through two channels of telephone government communications, two channels of direct-printing telegraph communications, and one phototelegraph channel. Space communications did not depend on the state of the ionosphere, the passage of waves, solar activity and other factors. That is, it was absolutely reliable. That's how it was intended. However, during operation it turned out that there were significant flaws in the design of the complex. The most important flaw was that the Shilka army air defense system was chosen as the basis for the vertical and horizontal antenna guidance system. The stumbling block was the magnetic particle coupling of the complex, designed to work in field conditions, and also in short-term mode. The designers forgot that there is always rough seas, and the clutch must constantly work 24 hours a day. During combat service, the couplings failed every month. Suppliers from the Black Sea Fleet communications department sent new couplings in boxes, emptying the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense. But there were still not enough couplings. Finally the moment came when couplings began to arrive very rarely. Apparently the warehouses are empty. And then the deadline for the official visit to the port of Piraeus arrived. Before the visit, a list of 10 operating frequencies was received through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on which it was allowed to operate in the Greek port. How Crystal could help here! But it was faulty. Meanwhile, it was necessary to transmit a daily report on the progress of the visit.
Literally, on the second day of the visit, at night the ship was left without communication - all operating frequencies were clogged with interference, and, it seemed, targeted interference. This was reported to the senior signalman on the ship, the deputy chief of communications of the Black Sea Fleet Capt. 1st rank to O. Sviridov. Not trusting anyone, Sviridov personally studied the situation at the ionospheric wave service post and decided to work at all frequencies without restrictions. After 20 minutes the connection was established and the telegrams were transmitted. At the morning report, officers were concerned about problems with uninterrupted communication. Unexpectedly, the space communications mechanics themselves took the initiative. They suggested using the Crystal complex in the “without clutch” mode. Indeed, the ship was securely moored broadside, stood in a closed bay, and there was absolutely no excitement on board. Just in case, the mechanics built a kind of rope block for small turns of the antenna in case the ship swayed, because being in the antenna post was mortally dangerous due to the influence of microwaves. First, we caught the satellite for reception by pointing the antenna at the maximum signal, and this was not easy, because the width of the antenna radiation pattern was 1 degree. Then the personnel went downstairs, leaving the antenna post. After this, the radio transmitter was turned on. After some time, the communication center responded. Further control of the antenna was carried out through a system of rope blocks. Until the end of the visit, the ship had high-quality communications on all channels. The command was completely satisfied. However, when there is a connection, no one notices it - this is an old axiom. And one more conclusion. You should never throw away an old rope, maybe it will come in handy in difficult times.Reception of cases
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After a major overhaul of the Zhdanov switchgear, some of the equipment was replaced with more advanced models. Telephone and radiotelephone special equipment, telegraphic direct-printing and ultra-high-speed communications equipment have been partially updated. The fleet of radio transmitters was updated: R-641, R-642 were removed and replaced with R-654. New radio relay and wire communication stations have appeared in service. An improved space communications station A-60 (“Crystal-K”) was installed. MVU-300 equipment was installed at the flagship command post, on the signal bridge of the Kit station. At the ionospheric wave service post there is P-494 oblique ionospheric sounding equipment. Unfortunately, the switching system for radio transmitting devices was not improved; switching was still carried out manually through the CPV system, which included three radio transmitting centers (a complete anachronism). There were other minor comments, for example, STA-35 devices were left in the telegraph room, which I used here when I was the commander of the BC-4 group in 1971-1976, although the Navy communications service was switching to roll-fed printing devices everywhere.
Service
It turned out that by the time the ship came out of major repairs in 1981, I was appointed senior engineer, having previously served on the Red Caucasus BOD for 5 years. Therefore, in addition to my direct responsibilities, I also had to take on the training of communications officers on duty, because Having been at the plant for so many years, the personnel completely lost their professional skills. In a short time three capable officers were trained. I would especially like to highlight the most competent communications officers on duty: the commander of the radio relay and wire communications group, Lieutenant N.G. Talipov, the radio communications commander, Lieutenant Moroz I. To train communications specialists, it was practiced to send personnel for an internship at the Black Sea Fleet communications center. This was the requirement of the head of communications of the Black Sea Fleet, captain 1st rank V. Averin. In the future, I tried to use any break in the voyage of the ship for more than a month to organize an internship at the Black Sea Fleet Communications Center. It must be said that the head of communications of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 1st Rank Averin V. (and later - admiral) was very attentive to the state of affairs in the warhead-4 KRU "Zhdanov". He regularly visited the ship, toured communication posts, talked with personnel, and told officers about the prospects for the development of the fleet's communications system. Since the radio watch of the fleet control center (readiness for deployment on board the operational and headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet) was carried out on the Zhdanov control unit, I always had the most comprehensive situation regarding communications between the fleet and the Navy. During communications training and exercises for the combat unit, no allowance was ever made for the fact that the work was carried out from the ship. We worked on equal terms with communication centers.
Lighthouse
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Colleagues
With great pleasure I remember my subordinates and colleagues: commander of the 1st communications division - captain 3rd rank Nikolai Ivanovich Romanenko, commander of the 2nd communications division - ZAS division, captain 3rd rank Trofimov Vladimir Vasilyevich, commander of the 3rd communications division - captain 3rd rank Biletsky Valery Ivanovich, senior engineer of the BC-4, captain 3rd rank Khanov Robert Nikolaevich, deputy commander of the BC-4 for political affairs, captain-lieutenant Evgeniy Dubovik, Mikhail Dudkin. It was a strong team of like-minded people who were up to any task. Signal officers influenced all ship affairs. Suffice it to say that I and all the division commanders were admitted as watch officers on the running watch. It meant something if out of the cruiser’s 12 watch officers, 6 were signalmen! A total of 16 officers served in the warhead-4, which accounted for more than a quarter of the cruiser’s entire officer corps. This made it possible to influence the results of election events. So, for example, when electing the head of the wardroom, the division commanders and I, as a rule, nominated a candidate, usually from Warhead-2, and then voted unanimously. BC-4 had its own primary party organization, which included BC-1 and the ship’s commander. Therefore, inspectors – the command of the fleet, the squadron – were very often present at the meetings.
I am very grateful to fate for bringing me together during my service on the cruiser “Zhdanov” in 1980-1986, along with the officers listed above, also group commanders (unfortunately, I no longer remember all the names and patronymics). These are Baishukanov, Kovalenko, Darymov, Zhezdyuk, Kutsepalov, Moroz, Talipov, Prikhodko, Metun, Lisovsky, Bezrukov, Novikov, Berezhnoy, Kondrashov. With midshipmen - Gumarov, Kulaga, Kovalenko Ya., Kovalenko D., Kravchenko, Bessaraba, Bolgov, Ryabokon, Ilyushin, Bolshakov, Malofeev, Kozichev, Voloshin, Kolesnik, Chumachenko, Paramonov, Kezin, Myasnikov, Stepanov, Esik, Golovan, Melnik and many others.
Checks
Actually, there were enough inspectors and checks on the cruiser. I remember a kind of record. In May 1984 on board the ship, which is in combat service in the Mediterranean Sea, command posts from five levels were simultaneously located: a group of the military department of the Central Committee, the marching headquarters of the Navy Civil Code, the headquarters of the Mediterranean squadron of the Navy, the marching headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, the marching headquarters of the 150th separate missile brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. The task of providing communications was extremely difficult. The ZAS expedition, led by the group commander, Senior Lieutenant V. Metun, worked in full force without sleep or rest. Each of the five operational duty officers had a government communications telephone, remote communication posts, and internal communications equipment installed. For three days, while testing and exercises were going on, communications worked almost without interruption, which cost enormous efforts of the entire warhead team. After the end of the exercises, BC-4 was thanked by the Deputy Chief of Naval Communications, Rear Admiral Orlov.
Becoming
The communications unit of the KRU "Zhdanov" corresponded to a medium-sized communications center in terms of technical equipment and number of personnel. However, problems constantly arose in ensuring the functioning of the warhead. For example, the issue of rest for the night shift was resolved with great difficulty. A ship is a ship, alarms were played 2-3 times every day and every night. Another problem is the divorce of special watches, which should be carried out by the ship's watch officer, but I sought divorces by the communications officer on duty. I solved all these problems in a strong-willed way, that is, I did as I considered necessary, for which I received a lot of criticism and reprimands from the commander and senior assistant.
I remember the case when a new commander, Alexey Alekseevich Ryzhenko, arrived on a ship directly in the Mediterranean Sea. He immediately began to manage the crew in the same way as it was done on a destroyer, that is, all formations were done on the quarterdeck, which is about 600 people. The commander did most of the talking. In these conditions, literally in a stampede, it was impossible to conduct a briefing or a basic analysis of actions. All warhead commanders were modestly silent. I was the first to break down, went to the commander and asked permission for a large gathering to line up in a regular place - the forecastle on the port side. The go-ahead was received, and from that moment on we formed separately from the entire crew of the ship.
I understood that the combat unit would be assessed based on the final results of combat activity. After some time, the ship’s commander, seeing my firm position on the issue of rest for the night shift, somewhat softened his demands and began to better understand the needs of the signalmen. As a result, no matter what, the warhead-4, based on the results of combat and political training in 1983, 1984, 1985. was always excellent, and shared first places with BC-1.
Program "Time"
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Conclusion
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Now it is difficult to characterize the activities of each member of the team, but it is nice to know that thanks to the dedicated work of officers, midshipmen, foremen and sailors, in the 80s there was a strong combat unit, and it was called the combat communications unit of the control cruiser “Zhdanov”.
Captain 1st Rank Yarosevich Sergei Viktorovich - brief information.
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- 1966-1971 cadet of VVMURE named after A.S. Popov
- 1971-1972 group commander ZAS BC-4 KRU "Zhdanov"
- 1972-1975 commander of the BP ZAS division of the ZAS BC-4 KRU "Zhdanov" division
- 1975-1980 commander of the BC-4 Guards BOD "Red Caucasus"
- 1981-1982 senior engineer BC-4 KRU "Zhdanov"
- 1982-1886 commander of warhead-4 KRU "Zhdanov"
- 1986-1996 Head of the Communications Application Cycle of the Naval Department of the SSTU (SPI)
The article uses photographs from the personal photo albums of the author, captain 2nd rank Dubovik, as well as Anofriev, Vorobyov, Kurdanin, Kononchuk and Patosin.
Atlantic squadron. 1968–2005 Belov Gennady Petrovich
2. Crew formation
2. Crew formation
The command of the Northern Fleet paid so much attention to the formation of the crew that during the recruitment period, the Northern Fleet Personnel Directorate appointed a “director” for the cruiser - Captain 2nd Rank V.I. Podberezkin, with whom all personnel issues regarding the officer corps were resolved. The crew of the Kirov was formed from officers, midshipmen and sailors of the 7th operational squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral V.I. Zub. He allowed Kovalchuk to take the best sailors from the ships of the squadron. The exception was the specialists of the movement division, whom Kovalchuk recruited from the officers and midshipmen of the 3rd division of nuclear boats in Gremikha.
Initially, command officers and combat unit commanders were assigned to the cruiser's crew. These were the following officers:
- deputy commander for political affairs, captain 3rd rank V. N. Popov.
– senior assistant commander, captain 3rd rank M. M. Telnov.
– assistant commander, captain-lieutenant A.S. Zyubritsky.
- commander of the warhead-1, captain-lieutenant V. G. Borisov.
– commander of the warhead-2, captain 3rd rank V. N. Khramtsov.
– commander of the 1st division of the warhead-2, captain-lieutenant V.V. Kozlovsky.
– commander of the 2nd division of the warhead-2, captain-lieutenant R.I. Soedsky.
– commander of the 3rd division of the warhead-2, captain-lieutenant S. G. Rolev.
– commander of the 4th division of the warhead-2, captain-lieutenant V. F. Kolesnik.
– commander of the warhead-3, captain – lieutenant V.I. Rymar.
– commander of warhead-5, captain 3rd rank N.I. Shipilov.
– commander of the movement division, captain-lieutenant I. P. Ratin.
– commander of the electrical and technical division, senior lieutenant A. K. Kinebas.
– commander of the survivability division, senior lieutenant N.V. Bogomolov.
– commander of the warhead-7, captain-lieutenant A. A. Sgibnev.
– commander of the 1st division of the warhead-7, captain-lieutenant G. G. Gabrikov.
– commander of the 2nd division of the warhead-7, captain-lieutenant V.V. Pitertsev.
– commander of the 3rd division of the warhead-7, captain-lieutenant V. A. Ivanov.
– commander of the 4th division of the warhead-7, senior lieutenant A.P. Romanko.
- Head of the Chemical Service, Captain-Lieutenant Postnikov.
– Head of the Medical Service, Captain of the Medical Service V.I. Uslugin.
These officers, who formed the core of the crew, began training in January 1977 at the Naval Training Center in Sosnovy Bor near Leningrad. After completing their studies, some of the officers were sent to the Naval Training Center in Paldiski, where the training of operators and chemical service specialists was continued at the operating reactor. The BC-5 officers first mastered the nuclear power plant on the nuclear icebreaker Sibir.
At the second stage (1977–1978), the ship was equipped with officers and midshipmen of combat units, services and commands. They were trained on ships of the squadron, Navy Training Centers and industrial enterprises where weapons and equipment of advanced models were created and tested. During the third phase in 1978–1979
The crew was staffed with sailors and foremen of conscript service. The selection was made from twenty-seven surface ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet. Cruiser officers were sent to these ships to study the personnel, and subsequently a ship commission under the leadership of the commander arrived on the ships and held a conversation with each sailor and petty officer, approving the final lists of candidates. The requirements for candidates for the ship's crew, set out in the order of the Navy Civil Code, were strictly fulfilled. The cruiser commander decided to staff the category of group commanders and engineers with college graduates (80% of them), which later paid off. For example, more than a quarter of the officers on the ship were graduates of the Popov VVMRE.
On August 12, 1978, the gathering of personnel began to prepare for the move to Leningrad. At the end of September 1978, the cruiser's crew arrived in Leningrad in two echelons, and the ship was included in the 13th brigade of ships under construction and repair. Through the efforts of the Chief of Staff of the Leningrad Naval Base, Vice Admiral Kasyanov, the ship’s crew was stationed not at the Potseluev Bridge, where submariners from newly built and repaired boats lived, but on Vasilyevsky Island, in a specially prepared military town on the Tannery Line, not far from the Baltic Shipyard. The crew moved to the ship on March 29, 1980.
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