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The ability to quickly find a way out of a difficult situation, navigate difficult situation, don't fall into a stupor, " Standby mode"or prostration - distinguishing feature everyone, a person who is Russian in spirit.

And this is not surprising, because we have historically become accustomed to the unexpected.

And thanks to our legendary ingenuity, we always find a way out and a solution to any problem.

Russian ingenuity is a quick reaction and successful results.

The ability to understand the balance of power and take advantage of any, even not the most favorable, combination of circumstances.

The ability to find ways to solve the most difficult situation.

Ingenuity and flexibility of mind.

Intelligence and entrepreneurship.

Striving to improve living conditions.

Expanding your capabilities.

Ingenuity helps out in completely unforeseen and unexpected situations.

Helps you quickly navigate and prevent yourself from being “drowned” in difficult issues when there is practically no time to think.

A resourceful person will not be lost thanks to his quick reaction and creation from nothing.

Ingenuity contributes to high speed in solving problems of varying degrees of complexity, because even the impossible for us is possible.

Russians are people who know how to look at things from different sides.

Find an alternative approach, that is, show your resourcefulness in a timely and expedient manner.

Russian invention consists not only in showing the world something previously unknown, but also in setting itself the task of improving some objects familiar to us.

GENERALIZATION

Ingenuity is one of the key qualities that sets us apart from the rest of the world. The whole way of life and the whole life of a Russian person are permeated with ingenuity. And this circumstance is extremely unnerving and causes wild envy of everyone." civilized» peace.

"Civilized" the world is fighting this Russian "disadvantage" as soon as possible: instills in us its values, imposes a norm- make business "civilized" (in slavish submission to the Western approach, its culture and rules of life as the only correct one). It would seem, why did they not like our harmless, national trait, and what do they want to achieve? Nothing special. They just really want us to finally become predictable, understandable, and therefore manageable and controllable for them. In other words, they do not pose a danger and do not interfere with building a world “for yourself.”

In the meantime, our resourcefulness is available - Western goals are just a “blue” dream.

It is noteworthy that in the Russian mentality, the presence of ingenuity has always been considered positive quality- “a fighter fights with wits and a stick,” while the West, any deviation from standards and narrow specialization— perceived with hostility. The result of this approach is the current Western society. Chewing, not interested in anything beyond their immediate responsibilities - a consumer society. Where Westerner capable of only one, clearly targeted function, when an accountant is exclusively an accountant. A cook is just a cook. And a policeman is just a policeman. Imagine that, as often happens in our country, a politician playing in his free time music group, rolling up my sleeves, on my day off I would repair the water supply system with wrench in one hand, a “bob” in the other and a flashlight in the mouth - there, it’s simply not possible. Because in any non-standard situation, residents collective West, flow into collective stupor, at most, stupidly searching on the phone for someone who, in their opinion, should solve such problems.

Fortunately, we are different. And although, on the one hand, no one likes difficulties, on the other hand, they are the only things that make us human, people with capital letters. Thanks to them, every citizen of Russia knows that in life, where there are no clear rules, but there are always strict boundaries, only resourcefulness and sharpness of mind help to get out of any extraordinary and hopeless situation, find a winning solution.

And let the rest of the world turn themselves into assembly line biorobots, we will continue to expand our horizons, increase multitasking and, being smart, get out of everywhere winners.

After all, ingenuity is a non-standard and non-standard solution to any problem, which means that only through it can one obtain and create something truly NEW.

We Russian people love to tell ourselves how savvy we are. Note that they are savvy, not smart. Intelligence is something different compared to ingenuity, I would even say something from a different plane... a person with a good sense of language will understand me.

And it is not yet known what is valued more highly in our society. I would even say that ingenuity, from a popular point of view, is a much more valuable quality. We have a wary, not to say hostile, attitude towards the mind; from a smart person you either expect some kind of trick, or you are afraid that she will become “clever” (but this action with the root “mind” is definitely negative). Being smart is generally practically a challenge, audacity; “Are you the smartest, or what?!” Notice, to say “Are you the most savvy?” - it’s impossible, because there is not an ounce of condemnation in this word. A savvy person is definitely OUR, that is, a good person.

As an example of “Russian ingenuity,” we often tell ourselves the story of the pencil. We tell you - and we are very proud of ourselves. Let me remind you... It's about space. Allegedly, the astronauts who flew into orbit discovered that an ordinary ballpoint pen does not write in zero gravity - the ink does not flow out of the refill. How then can you record research results in a notebook? Catastrophe!

The Russians and Americans allegedly took on the task at the same time. American engineers, physicists and chemists spent a year, conducted a bunch of tests, made a ton of prototypes and eventually built ballpoint pen at a cost of 2 million dollars, which can be used to write in zero gravity... And the Russian homemade products simply suggested that our cosmonauts write with a pencil.

Did you feel a surge of national pride? I felt it, although I heard this story performed by various comedians probably fifty times. It's chilling, damn it! This is exactly SMART! They are SMART there - there are all sorts of instruments, experiments, calculations, a crowd of nerds with glasses, Jews, of course (as without them) - and here we are. Simple, without any fuss. And the problem is solved! And not for 2 million, but for 2 rubles. Despite the fact that we did not graduate from these academies of yours.

An excellent example, but with sadness I must admit that it is still a little boring, and, what’s worse, is clearly outdated. In fact, what kind of notepads and pencils are there in space? Young people won’t even understand what the point is, they will just bat their eyes - dad, what is a pencil? Why does an astronaut need a notepad, can’t he use a tablet?

And by the way, about SALT. After all, thanks to the doping scandal, we have a new, much more relevant example of the most natural Russian ingenuity - thanks to which, again, we have been fooling the same Americans for years! And even the name of the most savvy one is known; yes, yes, this is the same Rodchenkov.

The conditions of the task were as follows. We have athletes, they have urine, doping floats in this urine. It would be necessary to open the jar of urine (doping test), pour out the “dirty” urine from there, pour in new and good, “clean” (without doping) urine from the same athlete, and seal the jar “as if it were a bum.” We learned how to open jars, accumulated reserves of “clean” urine, drilled a hole in the wall in advance - we did everything, but another obstacle arose: the damned bourgeoisie, vaguely aware that urine could somehow be replaced, came up with the idea of ​​measuring its density immediately after the athlete gave urine. a pocket refractometer (issued to each doping officer). And write density indicators on the jar.

But the catch is that the density of urine (even in the same person) DIFFERS depending on everything: time of day, diet, degree of fatigue - everything in the world. It turns out: I poured out the dirty one, poured in the clean one - but its density is different! You'll fall asleep in one fell swoop! So what should we do?! It would seem that the obstacle is insurmountable. In a time crunch, where can you get so much clean urine of different densities for all occasions?! The task is unrealistic.

But that’s where she helped, my dear. Savvy. Moreover, the solution turned out to be like that pencil - simple and cheap: salt (regular table salt) and water. Rodchenkov came up with an idea: he said, if the density is not enough, just add salt to the jar; and if the density is excessive, dilute “clean” urine with water. AND THAT'S ALL!

The genius of the solution is that salt and water are not doping, so no one in any laboratory will test urine for “excess” salt or water! Indeed, no one in the world has checked the urine of our athletes for salt and water. IT DIDN'T COME TO MY HEAD.

Until Rodchenkov himself suggested what to do. It was then that DISCOVERIES started pouring in. Prompting on time is also a kind of ingenuity.

Why not be proud of the guy? The whole world has been led by the nose! For the price of a pack of salt.

In the Russian piggy bank military history There are many cases when Western experts with admiration and bewilderment said something like this: “our army is not able to come up with anything that the Russians are capable of.”

And there is also a phrase from life: “If you need to do something, call the Chinese. If you need to do something impossible, call the Russians.”

About Russian ingenuity, resourcefulness and ingenuity at the time of writing books and making films. The Russian mind is inquisitive and it is always difficult to predict. But the Russian people do not have a plan of action; they are terrible with their improvisation.

Take for example the military craft, where the manifestation of Russian ingenuity traditionally breaks any records. After all, what the Russian army did was more than once included in military textbooks.

CROSSING THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE

One of the earliest examples of traditional Russian ingenuity always comes up when, more than 200 years ago, the great Russian commander Alexander Suvorov crossed the Alps and the famous “Devil's Bridge”. The path was the shortest, but the most difficult.

Suvorov began his campaign on September 21, when real winter had already begun in the Alps. Make the transition to winter conditions seemed outright suicide, since most passes turn into impregnable snow fortresses, mountain paths disappear under a thick layer of snow, and endless snowstorms do not allow you to see anything beyond arm's length.

But the most important obstacle on the way of Suvorov’s troops was the Devil’s Bridge (Teufelsbruecke), which spans the river. Reuss. Wanting to prevent excessive strengthening of the French on the left bank, Suvorov gave the order to General Kamensky to pursue the troops of the retreating General Lecourbe, exhausting the French units with constant rearguard battles.

As a result, the French were unable to fortify the Devil's Bridge, but dismantled its central part, making passage impossible.

Then Russian soldiers under the command of P.I. Bagration was dismantled from a nearby barn into logs, and, tying them together with officer scarves, they threw him through the gap.

Under the onslaught of the Russians, the French were forced to retreat, and most of them were sent south for evacuation. In total, Lecourbes had 3,000 people left, after the evacuation no more than 900.

In 1898, a monument was erected near this place in memory of Suvorov and his soldiers who accomplished this feat.

This little known fact, but 495 square meters the lands of Andermatt, a small village in Switzerland, belong to Russia. This territory was donated free of charge as gratitude.

HOW TO STOP A COLUMN OF ENEMY TANKS WITHOUT A SINGLE SHOT

Incredible miracles of Russian ingenuity were demonstrated in the Second World War.

In August 1941, one rifle company was sent to plug a hole in our defenses in the Krivoy Rog area. The task was set to prevent German tanks from passing through, holding out until the last drop of blood. The company was driven to the site, loaded with a whole truckload of RPG-40 anti-tank grenades, told that there would probably be a lot of tanks tomorrow, and left. According to all tactical scenarios, the soldiers had less than a day to live.

The commander examined the area and ordered: “It’s a shame, people are coming to visit us from Germany, but our road is so broken.” “He’s probably gone crazy from fear,” the soldiers thought. The commander continued: “Everyone, empty everything out of your duffel bags and follow me.” The company went to the nearest hill of slag from the road, removed from the nearby Krivoy Rog metallurgical plant, the equipment of which had already been evacuated to Nizhny Tagil. The commander made us fill bags with slag and carry it to the road.

The slag fell unevenly onto the road itself, more where the road goes uphill. “So that they don’t get slippery,” the commander said. They dragged the slag for a very long time, all the bags were torn to rags, but they managed to cover almost two kilometers of the road with slag. The people are angry and tired, now they have to dig in half the night.

In the morning, observers from the slag mountains gave a signal: “I see tanks.”

Clutching their almost useless grenades, the soldiers knew that life was over. Finally, the tanks began to enter the “improved” road. The third tank in the column was the first to lose its track, and a minute later this epidemic engulfed the remaining vehicles, eight in number. A standing tank, if you don't make it angry, is a safe thing. Not immediately understanding what your ist das was, the Germans also destroyed the tow tank. The Germans' infantry is not bad; they won't move forward without tanks - it's a jam. There is no reason for ours to run into them either.

The commander, who has formally completed the combat mission to stop the tanks, sends a messenger to find any superiors and convey: “The task is completed. There are no losses." The messenger brought good news: “You can leave at night, there is defense behind you. There will be an opportunity, then we’ll cover it with artillery”...

The commander's secret was his education. In civilian life he was a technician cold processed metals Nickel slag, a waste product from the production of high-alloy steel, is a terrible abrasive, only slightly inferior to corundum and aluminum oxide. None of the caterpillar fingers can withstand the abuse of such rubbish, and the entire caterpillar becomes unusable, taking with it most of the entire drive.

Knowledge is a terrible power.

TAKE FOR FEAR

Another case from when Russian ingenuity more than once rescued the army during the same Great Patriotic War.

The country was experiencing a huge shortage military equipment. What was needed most was tanks. Therefore, ordinary tractors were converted into tanks, which were sheathed with sheets of armor. During the defense of Odessa, 20 such vehicles were thrown against Romanian units.

“Initially, tractors in the Soviet Union were made so that they could be converted for tank production. Even the width of the tracks of Soviet tractors is the width of the track Soviet tanks, says historian Yaroslav Listov, “Then the enemy troops believed that tanks were attacking them unusual design, as they reported, and began to retreat in panic. And our soldiers nicknamed the model of such a tractor “NI-1” - “For Fright.”

Now in Russian army There are also weapons whose main purpose is to frighten the enemy. It's about about inflatable tanks. The dummies must mislead the enemy. In the event of war, such mock-ups are displayed to disorient the enemy regarding the real number of Russian equipment, and in case of air bombing, the enemy will use up part of the ammunition.

IN 3 HOURS - 22 TANK

Here is another example of amazing ingenuity. During the Great Patriotic War The crew of the KV-1 tank under the command of senior lieutenant Zinovy ​​Grigorievich Kolobanov destroyed 22 enemy tanks in three hours of battle on August 19, 1941. This absolute record. And all because the crew of Russian tankers, seeing a column of German tanks on the nearest road, decided to shoot the “head” and “tail” of the column itself, and then destroy the remaining vehicles.

“An incident near Leningrad when the crew of the KV-1 tank shot down 22 German tanks during a tank duel. The KV locked the column with the first two shots. German tanks they couldn’t get out of the column, and were shot as if in a shooting gallery,” says political scientist and historian Yaroslav Listov.

CRAFT OF MILITARY

During the Great Patriotic War, partisan radio operators had simple ciphers that German codebreakers cracked in no time. And so someone at the headquarters of the partisan movement suggested making intentional spelling errors in the encryption - such as “armored transport”, “ovtamat”, “somalet”, “anteleria”, “banbeshka”.

Since there were no such words in Russian-German dictionaries, the battle for enemy codebreakers quickly ended.

And the well-known Russian folk dirty tricks on the air - when the signalmen spoke in their native language, in swear words. This language cannot be translated - you need to understand it, and at least be a native speaker.

The Russian army was distinguished by its courage and resourcefulness for many years after the Second World War.

"GIVE BREAM"

This funny story happened during cold war on the border of Germany and eastern Germany. The bright minds of designers from Germany found very original way to test their tanks in “real” conditions - they slipped an autonomously controlled vehicle under our guns, and on purpose, greatly unnerving the border guards.

Those, in turn, were not bad either - new shells were developed quite regularly. And the German soldiers dragged the damaged tank back by the cable tied to it and examined the damage, trying to improve its “impenetrability” as much as possible. Time passed, so did progress. One fine day, I received another gift from my neighbors with a new, super cool shell right at the dome, but the tank did not die, as it had before, but survived and was successfully taken back to its homeland.

Naturally, our command did not like this situation very much. They invited several eminent engineers and gave them the task of coming up with something capable of calming such a device. The engineers were savvy and experienced people. The solution was very simple:

- “Comrades, shouldn’t we shoot at this infection with an old-style air defense gun?”

No sooner said than done! They brought in an old air defense gun, designed to kill enemy aircraft with a steel blank at altitudes of up to ten kilometers (such guns were used even before missiles)…

For example, to give you an idea of ​​what this colossus looks like:

The gun was scary! The barrel length is 10 meters + a specially designed kinetic blank. It was installed on a concrete pedestal without any special changes, only the barrel was turned not upward, but as it should be. And so, the hour of “Che” has come. Another German tank brazenly crawled out where it shouldn’t have, ours unsheathed the new toy and made mischief. Not a single academician expected SUCH an effect!

The tank was not knocked out in the literal sense of the word. It looked as if a sixty-ton piece of iron had been “blown away” from its place. A heavy tank, hit by a kinetic blank, fell apart into separate fragments, which, obeying natural laws, flew to their “homeland” under their own power without any towing...

Since then, NATO members have abandoned their favorite habit of testing new equipment on our border.

There are a lot of such stories. There are even more of them in real life like in this funny video.

The Russian people are famous not only for their generosity of soul and hospitality, but also for their ingenuity - the ability to quickly navigate space, find a witty way out of a difficult situation and achieve maximum results using limited resources.

Russian ingenuity often baffles the rational and educated Westerner, causing him to be surprised at the unconventional abilities of his eastern neighbors and fear their “asymmetrical responses.”

She was born from the earth and nature

There are few countries on Earth in which the climate would be as harsh, the cold would last for seven months a year, and the daily temperature difference would reach thirty degrees, and the annual temperature difference would reach seventy or more. Living in such conditions has always been difficult, but it was precisely these conditions that strengthened the Russian spirit so much that it was no longer possible to frighten it with anything.

Our ancestors lived in dugouts, wore leather pants, made do with little, monitored the development of the body, and preferred weapons to gold. But whatever the hardships they endured, the problems of the Great Russian peasants plowing the loam were much more serious.

If in Kyiv the basis of the economy was trade, and people lived crowded in order to protect themselves from nomads, then in the upper reaches of the Volga you will find arable land among the swamps it was difficult, the villages were tiny until the 17th century, the local lands were meager, the plots were small, there was nowhere to wait for help, and any tricks were used that could help get a harvest and survive: they resorted to shifting arable farming, moved from place to place, moving north and east to the Urals and the North Sea.

Often people were forced to earn their own food by any means: they were engaged in hunting, fishing, ice fishing, beekeeping, mastered cooking salt and collecting resin - oleoresin, looked for ore, forged iron, sold horses, wove bast shoes and made whistles.

From childhood they learned these sciences from others, and if there were no teachers, they learned everything themselves, learning not to be afraid of any work and to rely on their own ingenuity and on God.

This feature of the Russian people was pointed out by the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov and the historian Vasily Klyuchevsky, who in their lectures said that “In Europe there is no people less spoiled and demanding, accustomed to expect less from nature and fate and more enduring” than the Great Russians.

The climate of the country has taught the Russian to be attentive, always beware of dangers, to be prudent, careful, and short summer taught me to work quickly, quickly, and energetically resolve all issues, and after a lot of effort - to rest during the long winter.

New times - new challenges

Over time, the life of the Russians did not become easier: having mastered the spaces up to the Urals, they crossed the mountain range and began to explore the new vast and often even harsher expanses of Siberia and the Far East, in which thousands of dangers lurked - from cold and snow storms to swamps, permafrost, unknown animals and unknown diseases.

In such conditions, the question often arose - to survive or die, but it was these conditions that gave rise to unpretentiousness and courage in Russians, which the Western tradesman often confused with madness; resourcefulness, observation, a sharp and quick mind that allows you to solve any given problem with the help of an ax and a couple of not always literary exclamations - in short, Russian savvy appeared partly thanks to the cruel Russian winter, the dangers of the taiga and the meager harvest that could be grown on poor soils.

She was raised by unfriendly neighbors

Russian ingenuity was also nurtured by the warlike neighbors who surrounded our country at all times, starting from the warlike Pechenegs, Khazars, Polovtsy, Mongols in the east and southeast and ending with the Teutons, constantly probing the Russian borders in the west.

The art of war, which the Russians often learned on the fly, during the raids of nomads, also became a source of development of ingenuity. In negotiations with strong and insidious opponents, one had to rely only on one’s own cunning, resourcefulness and diplomacy: one can only guess what tricks the Moscow princes resorted to in the Golden Horde.

To lighten the heaviest yoke of the yoke, to reduce taxes or the number of slaves annually given to the invaders; in order to gradually, imperceptibly strengthen the state and organize, equip and train an army capable of resisting the huge Mamaev horde.

Poverty raised her

The prosperity of the Russian people has always depended not on the authorities, but on the enormous expenses that fell on his shoulders: the maintenance of the army and extensive infrastructure due to the vast Russian distances.

It must be admitted that it is impossible to ensure that the entire population of the country, half of whose territory is occupied by permafrost, and the other half is constantly tormented by nomads, would live equally richly, so the Russian people not only got used to poverty, they developed a philosophy that organically lay on the Christian philosophy of asceticism .

As the publicist and historical writer Boris Bashilov (Yurkevich) wrote in his work “Moscow Rus' before the penetration of the Freemasons,” “The famous Russian ingenuity is nothing more than one of the forms of adaptation to poverty.”

Russian people accept poverty as a blessing and even idealize it, perceive it as a test sent by God, and find in it sources of spiritual strength. Perceived in this way, poverty becomes the source of his spiritual strength, the source of the development of the Russian mind, ingenuity, cunning and the cultivation of perseverance, unpretentiousness, generosity and kindness.

In fact, Russian ingenuity has three sources that feed it - the cruel nature of the country and its vast expanses, the asceticism of existence and the endless maneuvering between enemies, between East and West.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this maneuvering that Russian roads are so winding, but thanks to the Russian mind they always lead to the goal.

Chapter 13. RUSSIAN SMART

In 1796, Empress Catherine died. Her son, Paul I, ascended the throne. Hot-tempered and irritable, who had long dreamed of power, he hated his mother and everything connected with her. As soon as possible, he wanted to destroy the old order and redo everything in his own way.

He removed nobles close to Catherine from business and sent many into exile.

Drill and cane discipline were introduced in the army.

The lavish festivities stopped.

Now Kulibin was no longer needed as an organizer of court entertainment.

They completely forgot about him. He lost even that little support and condescending and patronizing attitude towards his inventions that he had until now.

Kulibin's mental state became worse day by day. Still, he continued to work on his inventions. He understood that the people needed them, although the tsarist government did not recognize them.

At times he was overcome by melancholy and despair. What will happen next? What to do?

The future seemed dark and full of uncertainty. “My circumstances are covered in uncertainty,” he wrote in January 1800 to his eldest daughter and son-in-law in Nizhny.

“My circumstances still have not changed,” he wrote to them in February.

“My circumstances are still unknown to this day, in which, it seems, there is no hope for the better,” he wrote to them in March.

However, even in such a situation, he sometimes managed to show off his enormous talent as a mechanic and inventor.

At the end of June 1800, final preparations for the launch of the ship were underway at the Admiralty Shipyard slipway. They removed the now unnecessary scaffolding, set up winches, tightened ropes, greased the guides along which the ship was supposed to slide during descent.

It was the one hundred and thirty-gun warship Blagodat, the largest of all those built so far in Russia.

Launching a ship is not an easy task. You need to correctly arrange the winches and people, calculate how much force will be required to move the ship from its place. Only then will the ship smoothly descend from the slipway onto the water. Otherwise, it may get stuck in place and even tip over.

It was as if everything had been correctly calculated and arranged. The work was supervised by shipbuilding scientists.

On the solemn day of the descent, all of St. Petersburg gathered at the Admiralty Shipyard. Both banks of the Neva were completely crowded with people. Everyone has arrived to know. All shipbuilders and sailors. There were many foreigners among them. They were waiting for the arrival of Emperor Paul.

Kulibin also came to watch the launch of the ship. At first he stood at a distance, but then, apparently interested in something, he came closer. He looked carefully at the ship, entangled in a network of ropes, at the winches placed around.

“Things are not going well with you,” he said to the chief manager, “the ship will move, but then it will stall and will not leave the slipway.”

The manager frowned. Although he knew Kulibin from his self-propelled vessel, how dare he, a simple man, a bearded man who does not know mathematics and mechanics, point him out and make comments!

He looked Kulibin up and down with a contemptuous look and muttered through his teeth:

“Please don’t interfere in your own affairs.”

Kulibin walked away.

“Well,” he thought bitterly, “they are scientists, and foreigners at that, they know better. Whatever they do, everything is fine. An ordinary person, no matter how hard he tries, still has no way. Only because he is of peasant rank.”

Without waiting for the ship to descend, Kulibin went home.

And near the Admiralty Shipyard they were still waiting for the arrival of the emperor.

Finally the royal carriage appeared. The people became quiet. The most solemn moment had arrived - the ship was about to begin lowering.

Pavel gave a sign. The chief manager gave the order. The supports were taken away. The ropes tightened and the winches creaked. The ship set off - and suddenly, instead of moving smoothly along the guides, it got stuck.

We tried to pull again. In vain. They began to rearrange the winches and install the wagons. But nothing helped. The strongest ropes tore like threads, thick oak logs broke like twigs. And the ship is not moving.

The shipbuilders were seriously alarmed. Everyone gave their advice. But it's all in vain. An obvious catastrophe was looming. The ship could have capsized at any moment.

Pavel became furious. Everywhere and everywhere he imagined conspiracies and betrayals. He screamed and stamped his feet. He promised to deal with everyone. He left in anger.

The chief steward was in despair. He was probably facing exile. So what's now? And suddenly he remembered Kulibin. Why didn't he listen to him in the morning? We must send for him immediately! Some of the scientists chuckled contemptuously. It is clear that here everything needs to be thought through and calculated again. And for this you need to know mechanics and mathematics. What can a simple bearded man do here? But the chief manager still decided to send for Kulibin.

Kulibin came to the Admiralty Shipyard. He knew what the shipbuilders' mistake was. He saw her this morning. But he could now keep silent about it. After all, launching ships was not his responsibility. However, he was above all a patriot. The interests of his fatherland were dear to him. He could not allow the people's property to be lost because of personal grievances.

Kulibin examined everything again, wrote down some data and promised to launch the ship tomorrow morning. The only condition he set was that no one interfere with his orders.

Kulibin has long been interested in issues of shipbuilding and launching a ship. I made some notes and calculations, studied the interaction of forces during the descent of the ship. Therefore, he was sufficiently prepared to now solve the difficult problem. Still, all evening and all night long he had to draw and calculate.

The next day, early in the morning, Kulibin came to the place. And, although the descent was supposed to begin in a few more hours, there were already no fewer people than the day before. The only thing missing was the nobility, because the king’s arrival was not expected.

Kulibin rearranged some winches. He released some ropes and tightened others. Many people voluntarily began to help him. He put the people and sailors in their places.

He told everyone what they should do. He himself boarded the ship and waved his white handkerchief. People leaned together on the ropes and ropes. And, as if by the wave of a magic wand, the ship slid along the guides and with shouts of “Hurray!” smoothly descended onto the water.

When Kulibin appeared on the shore, people surrounded him in a tight ring, picked him up in their arms, and began to rock him. Hats flew into the air.

– Hurray for the Russian bearded man! Wipe the nose of overseas scientists! - they shouted around.

The people glorified their hero.

On this day, Kulibin could not appear on the street: a crowd was now gathering around him. Sailors, artisans, street vendors, passersby - everyone wanted to talk to Kulibin, express their admiration for his intelligence and talent.

And he received neither reward nor gratitude from the government.