Cool expressions and funny DJ phrases.

What is receiver input and output

The input of a receiver is that part of its circuit to which voltage is supplied to be amplified, converted, etc. In radio receivers, the “antenna” and “ground” terminals are considered the input.

The output is the part from which the voltage amplified by the receiver is removed, for example, a break in the anode circuit of the last receiver lamp or the secondary winding of the output transformer, the primary winding of which is connected to the anode circuit of the final lamp.

Why is a choke output or output transformer used in receivers?

The current flowing in the anode circuit of the output lamp is made up of two currents: a constant component of the anode current created by the rectifier or anode battery, and a variable (sound) component from the incoming signal.

If you connect the loudspeaker directly to the anode circuit of the output lamp, then the entire anode current of up to 20-50 mA will flow through the loudspeaker coils. This can cause the speaker armature to stick to one of the magnet pole pieces, saturating the latter, displacing the dynamic speaker's voice coil, etc. In addition, such a current will cause excessive heat to the speaker coils.

The constant component of the anode current is not needed for the operation of the loudspeaker, since the latter is driven by a variable component. In order to pass not a constant current component into the loudspeaker, but only one sound component, output transformers or output chokes are installed in the anode circuit of the terminal lamp. In this case, the constant component flows through the primary winding of the transformer or through the inductor winding, and only the sound component of the anode current flows through the loudspeaker coil.

How to make a throttle output?

A simple choke output circuit is shown in the figure. Dr - inductor (its approximate data: iron cross-section 4 cm2, PE wire 0.1; the number of turns is selected in relation to Ri of the output lamp), C - 2 µF capacitor.

What determines the choice of transformer or choke output?

The performance qualities of both exit systems are the same. The choice depends on whether the radio amateur has the appropriate radio components. In general, the choke output is applicable only for speakers with a high-impedance voice coil, and for low-impedance coils, a transformer output is used.

Is it possible to use an inter-lamp transformer as an output transformer?

The primary winding of the inter-lamp transformer is designed for inclusion in the anode circuit of low-power lamps that have a relatively high internal resistance and low anode current. If such a transformer is included in the anode circuit of the output lamp, through which a large current flows (see question 2), this will lead to saturation of the transformer core; its winding will become very hot, and the inductive reactance of the transformer winding will not correspond to the internal resistance of the lamp. Therefore, from the inter-lamp transformer you can only take the core, onto which you need to wind other windings, according to the type of output lamp and the type of loudspeaker. In addition, it should be borne in mind that an air gap is made in the core of the output transformer, since an output transformer made without a gap has too big sizes.

Which lamp is better to use at the output - a pentode or a triode?

It is necessary to compare not one pentode stage and one triode stage, but one pentode stage with an approximately equivalent two-stage triode amplifier. In this case, it is necessary to recognize the advantages of the pentode, since one stage with a pentode works better, produces less distortion than two stages on three-electrode lamps and makes it possible to reduce the dimensions of the receiver. In order for the pentode to operate without distortion, the output transformer in the pentode circuit must be correctly sized.

Is it necessary to use low-frequency pre-amplification when using a pentode as a final tube?

The pentode is specifically designed to deliver high power with very low alternating voltages applied to its control grid. In receivers that have a three-electrode or shielded lamp or pentode as a detector, there is no need for pre-amplification of the low frequency, since these detectors supply the pentode grid with the voltage necessary for the pentode to deliver full power. In receivers with diode detection, the alternating voltages on the pentode grid are not always sufficient and in such cases, low-frequency pre-amplification is often necessary. The pre-amplification lamp can be independent or combined in one cylinder with a diode detector (diode-triode, diode-pentode).

How to replace the output pentode if this lamp is not available?

If there is no low-frequency pentode, then a UO-104 lamp can be used as an output lamp, although it does not give the same results as a pentode. In this case, the use of the UO-104 lamp should be considered temporary, not because this lamp is generally unsuitable for working at the output of the receiver, but because for permanent job lamp UO-104 as an output in receivers of the RF-1 type requires preliminary amplification of the low frequency. The figure shows a diagram of a combined triode - pentode output device. This circuit allows you to install either a pentode or a triode at the output without subsequent modification of the output stage. Resistance R4 and capacitor C4 take part in the operation only when a triode lamp (UO-104) is installed at the output. In Fig. a shows the option of including a pentode in the circuit, in Fig. b - triode switching on. In the latter case, R4 serves as a bias resistance (its value is about 1,000 Ohms). Capacitor C4, which, together with resistance R2, plays the role of a decoupling circuit, has a capacitance of 1-2 μF. In the presence of a pentode, the entire primary winding of the output transformer designed for a pentode is used, and with a UO-104 lamp, only half of the primary winding is used. A special switch is required for this purpose.

Is it possible to make a push-pull final stage using pentodes?

Push-pull final stages on pentodes are sometimes used in the most powerful and expensive modern radio receivers. In conventional receivers and in home-made amateur designs, there is no point in making such push-pull cascades, due to their high cost and small advantages compared to conventional push-pull cascades on triodes.

What types of chokes are there for a three-electrode output lamp and for a pentode?

The output chokes, included in the circuit of the final three-electrode lamp, have a winding, to the beginning of which a loudspeaker is connected through a capacitor. Output chokes for pentodes are tapped from the middle of the winding. The loudspeaker is connected to the midpoint via a capacitor.

Interfaces (inputs and outputs) on TVs

CI/PCMCIA (Common Interface/Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)– a universal interface designed for connecting access cards to a TV, which make it possible to view encoded paid multimedia content.

The so-called conditional access module CAM (Conditional Access Module) is inserted into a special PCMCIA socket located on the TV, into which an access card for encrypted programs and films transmitted via satellite, cable or terrestrial digital television, previously purchased from the operator, is then inserted.

The CAM module is a decoder that allows you to work with a specific digital television standard, such as DVB-S, DVB-C or DVB-T. Some CAM modules can work with several standards at once.

DV (Digital Video)– type of interface and connector for connecting digital signal sources (VCRs, external drives, video cameras, receivers and media players) to the TV. It was introduced in the mid-90s of the last century to connect video cameras from Panasonic, Sony, Philips, JVC and Hitachi using the miniDV standard.

The main advantages of such an interface are high data transfer speeds (up to 800 Mbit/s), low signal losses and promising opportunities for use in high-definition television. There are two compatible DV connector options: four-pin (Sony's iLink) and six-pin (Apple's FireWire). The additional two pins are used to supply power.

DVI (Digital Visual Interface)- a type of interface and connector designed for transmitting analog and digital high-definition signals. In use since 1999.

Depending on the type of signal transmitted, DVI connectors are divided into three main types:

• DVI-A - capable of transmitting only an analog signal;
• DVI-I - capable of transmitting both analog and digital signals;
• DVI-D - capable of transmitting only a digital signal.

Digital types of interface (DVI-I and DVI-D), in turn, can be of the Single Link and Dual Link type, differing in the number of contacts involved. Single Link connectors can transmit video signals with FullHD resolution. To transfer more high resolution Ultra HD format will require a Dual Link connector.

The main weak point of the DVI interface is the dependence of picture quality on the connection characteristics and cable length (no more than 5 meters), which requires the use of various hardware and software solutions.

DisplayPort– a promising interface standard for connecting and simultaneous transmission of high-quality digital video and audio signals, which was developed by a number of famous companies in 2006 as an alternative to the licensed DVI and HDMI standards. Used to connect computers and monitors, as well as household panels various types(PDP, LCD and CRT).

The DisplayPort standard provides high data transfer rates, even exceeding HDMI, and also uses more advanced media encryption algorithms to protect it from illegal copying.

Additional benefits of the DisplayPort standard include low level energy consumption, high level noise protection, small size, the ability to connect a longer cable, as well as reliable fixation of the connector using a special latch.

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)– the most advanced type of digital interface and connection to date, providing the most high quality image and sound, equipped with an effective copy protection system. Is logical development DVI-D interface, with which it is fully compatible.

There are special adapters that allow you to connect DVI-HDMI cables. Unlike DVI, new type The interface is capable of transmitting not only high-quality FullHD video, but also multi-channel digitized audio. In addition, HDMI has a higher data transfer rate, a smaller connector size, an increased cable length that transmits the signal without distortion (up to 15 meters), and a long service life.

There are 3 types of HDMI connectors:

• Type A (19-pin);
• Type B (29-pin);
• Mini-HDMI (smaller version of Type A, used to connect video cameras).

RGB– interface belonging to component types that are used to connect to a TV various sources video signal (DVD players, television decoders, computers, game consoles and the like).

In the environment of analog interfaces, RGB provides the highest quality video signal transmission. This result is achieved by breaking the standard RGB signal into separate components (color difference signals Pb and Pr), as well as synchronization and brightness level (Y) signals, each component of which is transmitted over a separate cable.

This is the fundamental difference between a component interface and composite RCA (audio-video), in which the entire video signal is transmitted over one cable, and the sound through one or two additional wires (stereo or mono). To transmit the RGB signal, standard tulip-type RCA connectors or more exotic bayonet-type coaxial BNC connectors are used.

S-Video (Separate Video)– a special interface and a corresponding four-pin mini-DIN connector that allows you to connect an analog video signal source to the monitor. The quality of the transmitted image occupies an intermediate place between composite And component interface .

Higher quality of video signal transmission is achieved by dividing it into brightness and color components, which are transmitted via separate cables. Special adapters can be used to interface S-Video and RCA connectors.

USB– a universal connector designed to connect various modern digital multimedia devices, including televisions. There are different generations of USB, differing in data transfer speed.

Modern TVs equipped with this type of interface allow you to connect and display multimedia content recorded on compatible Flash drives and external hard drives.

Problems with recognizing external devices and playing content can be caused by insufficient power supplied through the USB port, as well as by the format of multimedia files that the TV does not recognize. In some models of inexpensive TVs, the USB port is used exclusively for service purposes.

VGA– a fairly common standard for transmitting analog video signals to computer monitors and television panels using a 15-pin connector or a five-pin BNC cable. VGA belongs to the component type of interfaces, as it provides separate transmission of video signal components (three color difference signals, as well as brightness and synchronization signals), which ensures fairly high image quality.

Today, the VGA standard is gradually losing its popularity, being replaced by more advanced digital interfaces HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort. Developers of modern electronic equipment have already announced that they will stop supporting this standard in 2015.

RS-232 interface– a serial data port that was originally installed on most personal computers, and in Lately They began to be equipped with modern television panels with a large diagonal.

By connecting a computer to this port, the user can remotely change the TV’s operating parameters (turn it on and off, change image and sound characteristics, select a video source) without using a traditional remote control. Such capabilities may be in demand if the TV is used as a media center or information board in in public places. Special software must first be installed on the computer.

In the future, such capabilities may make it possible to use the TV as a large screen that displays information from a computer, for example: an original alarm clock, a multimedia reminder board, an alarm and home security system, and the like.

Audio output (stereo)– a set of connectors that allow you to connect external audio devices to the TV. As a rule, the speakers built into the TV panel cannot provide high quality sound, especially from a multi-channel source. The presence of audio output jacks on the TV allows you to solve this problem to a certain extent by connecting external stereo speakers to it.

Coaxial audio input and output– the presence of these connectors on the TV allows you to connect to it sources and receivers of high-quality digital audio signals, such as DVD players or home theater systems.

Digital interfaces are distinguished by their ability to transmit audio signals over a single cable with virtually no noise or interference in multi-channel or stereo format. The connection is made using a shielded cable with RCA tulip plugs.

Component video input and output (YPbPr)– a set of special connectors on televisions and household multimedia devices that provide parallel transmission of various components (components) of a video signal over several cables. This type The interface is supported by almost all modern household equipment.

The video signal is divided into three components (Pb, Pr and Y), each of which is transmitted via a separate cable:

• Color difference Pb (difference between the level of blue color and image brightness);
• Color difference Pr (the difference between the red color level and the brightness of the image);
• Image brightness levelY with synchronization pulses.

Thanks to the separate transmission of components and their subsequent mixing, the overall video signal is transmitted with less distortion. The component video signal is transmitted over a coaxial cable, at the ends of which there are familiar RCA-type “tulip” or BNC connectors.

The optical audio signal itself is transmitted using a sequence of light flashes over a special fiber-optic cable, which is much more expensive than traditional coaxial cable. It would be justified to use a fiber optic cable if you are going to transmit an audio signal over a distance exceeding 10 meters, and also use Hi-Fi class audio equipment. However, most users practically cannot distinguish the quality of multi-channel sound transmitted over an optical or coaxial cable.

AV input and output- the earliest way to connect home video equipment to a TV. Belongs to composite interfaces, since the transmission of video and audio signals occurs via two separate cables combined into a pair.

The connection between a TV and a VCR or DVD player is made using an RCA cable, the end plugs of which are popularly called “tulip”. It is clear that this method of signal transmission cannot satisfy modern requirements for image and sound quality due to high losses and low noise immunity. Therefore, about transmitting video in HDTV format to in this case there is no need to talk.

The AV input of the TV allows you to connect home video equipment to it for demonstration on big screen previously recorded video programs, and the AV output allows you to record broadcasts of terrestrial, satellite or cable television on VCRs and players.

SCART– a standardized European interface and multi-plug connector used for connecting multimedia devices (TVs, DVD players, VCRs and the like) among themselves. Present in almost every modern TV produced for European zone. The presence of a 21-pin connector allows high-quality transmission of the entire set of video and audio signals in both digital and analogue form.

This interface provides high quality audio and video signal transmission with virtually no loss, and the presence of unoccupied contacts provides future prospects further development this standard.

I found the bond.

Unzipped his fly

The number came right away.

Don't get married guys

Don't be a fool:

I got married, took without tits,

And now no milk.

Oh, my dear,

What are you unhappy about?

Shurum-burum is ahead,

There's a creamery behind.

Come see me on the beach

And lie down next to me.

You and I will build a house,

You will be the first floor.

Rosita sleeps and doesn’t feel,

That a sailor spends the night on it.

Rosita will wake up

Bad girls need to be spanked on the ass with their bellies.

If abortion is infanticide, then blowjob is cannibalism.

A girl is like ice cream: at first it’s cold, then it melts, then it sticks.

It's March - love without trousers!

Masha - 3 rubles and ours,

5 rubles - and we're there,

I’ll pay an extra 1 ruble and put it as I want.

Happy people don't wear panties.

- Do you like women?

- And they you?

Love is a moral and aesthetic feeling, expressed in a selfless and selfless desire for one’s object.

The smaller the girl we are, the smaller we make her!

Love the one you can kneel before, not the one who kneels before you.

Dance is the vertical position of horizontal desires.

Every man has right to left!

A necropedozoophiliac came to us today,

He brought dead little animals with him.

Love is like a fire: if you don’t throw a stick, it will go out.

Grow-grow my pussy!

Pornography is an attempt to insult sex by making it dirty.

Love was invented by men to avoid paying women money.

– What is the difference between erotica and pornography?

– Erotica is art, pornography is life.

The body, immersed in the body, loses flexibility and secretes fluid.

A man, having achieved the first kiss, begs for a second, demands a third, boldly takes the fourth and endures all subsequent ones.

A girl is like a parachute: she can fail, so you need to have a spare one.

– Where does the girl have appendicitis?

- As you enter, turn left.

“WOW,” said the gynecologist!

“WOW,” echoed the echo.

A woman's kiss is always reminiscent of a boxer's handshake before a fight.

A woman is like a fortress: one can be captured after the first assault, another after a long siege, and a third after negotiations.

“Love is torment,” said the monkey, hugging the hedgehog.

A good girl is the one who dresses for everyone and undresses for one.

A kiss is a short circuit, after which all fuses burn out.

Maybe there is no love, but there is an attraction to a naked woman.

I have it, but I didn’t even know...

Strip and conquer!

We are not hippies, we are not punks,

We don't need discos

We are lesbian girls

And gay guys!

I walked, singing, into the shower,

And her husband was waiting for me there.

I don’t know who I want.

Whom I know, I don't want.

Once with a pen,

Two pen,

What are you sick with - tripper!!!

Do you like girls? Me too, let's be friends.

Love is when at first it’s lonely, then it’s joyful, and then it’s time to change diapers!

The Bible teaches to love your neighbor, and the Kama Sutra explains exactly how.

Klava is not Slate, but it will still do.

Spring has come, the birds are singing,

The kidneys and testicles are swollen.

This was your last determined boy.

And their little eyes are like seagull wings.

How good are you, Nanay girls!

With dear heaven and in the hut,

If the darling is driving a Porshe!

Get together, girls, in a heap,

I'll teach you a lesson.

Love has passed, the tomatoes have wilted, the sandals are too tight, and we are not on our way.

Baby condoms.

The thicker and longer, the nicer it is to the girl.

A kiss is a call to the upper floor to open the lower one.

If a girl hasn't called you impudent all night, you can be sure that in the morning she will call you an ass.

Love is a bunch of impulses that affects the brain like a cancerous tumor.

Every day it gets stronger.

- Lesha, I want you!

- I love you too, Katya!

- I'm not Katya, you idiot!

A group of zoophiles will buy a pig farm!

A group of necrophiliacs will exchange a pig farm for a morgue.

A woman's love gives a man momentary pleasure and imposes eternal obligations on him.

All the unknowns of love are unknown to us for the time being:

Ants bit her, mosquitoes bit me...

Easier to find white black man than a faithful girl.

When Snickers saw how Alenka chocolate was stripped, it became 20% larger!

A girl is like a cartridge: she can always misfire, so it’s better to have a clip.

It's hard to argue with a naked woman...

If you love, then you want.

A woman sometimes has to get married.

They say that girls are as beautiful as stars, and the beauty of stars is only visible at night.

The more girls we love, the less time we have to sleep.

Virginity is not a vice, but sexual illiteracy.

Where to go?

Where to go?

Who should I find?

Who should I give myself to?

Natasha + Kolya = Sasha.

Evolution of an organism not spoiled by sex:

Every night I dream about women, and the result is a wet dream.

Sex from princesses should be earned, not received.

You can't ruin a friendship with sex.

Girls want sex too, we just call it romance.

And the troubles of love
In the forest they are funny and cute:
She was bitten by ants
I was bitten by mosquitoes.
NIKOLAI GLAZKOV

Sex is a dish to be served to the hungry.

I'll be happy to blow up a sex bomb.

I'm with unknown women I don't talk in bed!

Do you have a gun there or are you just happy to see me?

Sex is like snow. You never know how many centimeters will fall out and how long it will last.

Come to your senses, brothers and sisters! What are you doing? You are brothers and sisters!
Vladivostok KVN team

I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.

There are many things worse than sex. There may be things better than sex. But there is nothing exactly like sex.

Sex is hereditary. If your parents did not do it, then you are unlikely to get such an opportunity.

Frequency is the key to health.

There are no calories in sex!

You should not drive after drinking alcohol. And after sex - you can. They haven’t thought of banning this yet.

I demand it now, but not right away!
MAYA CHETVERTOVA

If you don't want my peaches, don't shake my tree.

People endlessly dream about erogenous places.

Born yourself, help another.

My dear harmonica player -
I'm his songbird.
Well, what kind of b.. am I?
I'm just a naughty girl.

This requires music.

Two are a couple, three are an orgy.

A young man with a visual impairment is looking for a girl who is pleasant to the touch.

There is no event from their intercourse.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"

Programmer under the moon
I patted him on the back.
And she told me: Wait!
Better move your mouse!

I dream of meeting you
With programmer Fedya,
Only he doesn't notice
My multimedia.

Marusya refused me -
They say she's very busy.
For me, they say, it’s not enough
Parallel port.

Viagra light - you just want to kiss.

My husband suddenly returns home from the Internet...

– How do hedgehogs reproduce?
– Very, very, very careful.

I code from masturbation for one day. Expensive. Natasha.

He says it was in ecstasy, but I remember exactly that it was in the barn.

I could have loved you yesterday...

Not porn, but fun!

A person spends a third of his life in bed. And the remaining two-thirds he is trying to drag someone into this bed.

Love is eternal. Partners just change...

Love exists. I was working on it.

So two loneliness met - and they ended up with two nights...
SERGEY IZOTOV

Love is not something you just want to do, you have to do it!

Play, hormone!

It is better to work with love than to make love with difficulty.

How fewer girls we love the more time to sleep.

From love to hate once.

Carlson flew in and was waiting for the Kid...

A good leftist, he strengthens the marriage.

So you and I find ourselves on opposite sides of the same condom...

The day passed without dissipation.

Don't get distracted, loving.

A woman wants many things, but from one man, and a man wants one thing, but from many women.

Sometimes you sink so low that it takes your breath away...

Sad, it's time!

Better a hundred times than a hundred times.

Student's love: there is someone with, there is something, but nowhere. Love of an impotent: there is someone, there is where, but there is nothing. Philosopher's love: there is where, there is with whom, there is something, but WHY?

Well, that's it, I'm done. You can moan...

Nice little thing - young body!

Better porn than never!

He gets up early, to whom no one gives anything at night.

Three people in a boat, not embarrassed by a dog...

The era of great pornographic discoveries.
VENEDIKT EROFEEV

I want something, but I don’t know who...

I don’t understand: either I’m bored with you, or I want to sleep with you...

Years will pass, and I will want you...
VLADIMIR VISHNEVSKY

I give lessons in lust.

Take me quickly
Take me over 100 seas,
And you get 10 years
I'm not 18!

You can love until the grave an unlimited number of times.

Not even a rustle can be heard in the closet...

The young people don’t give anymore, but the old ones don’t want it yet.

It doesn't matter to me whether you are alive or dead, it only matters whether you are a boy or a girl.
ANTHONY HEARTY, "I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy"

Always is irregular and infrequent.

Other people's wives don't get migraines.

She had been waiting for him all her life. But I didn’t expect a sudden return from a business trip...

Over the years, it becomes easier to spend a wife, but the night becomes more and more difficult.

Both my mother and the Ministry of Health warned...
MAYA FOUR

Love has passed, all that remains is the rest...
MAYA CHETVERTOVA

I fell asleep without saying goodbye. I'm getting a divorce!
MAYA CHETVERTOVA

Anatoly MARCHENKO

MY INDICATIONS

Here is one of many stories - it differs from others only in its fiction. This story happened before my eyes in the spring of 1963.

One of my cellmates, Sergei K., driven to complete despair by the hopelessness of any protests of hunger, tyranny, injustice, decided to mutilate himself at all costs. He picked up a piece of wire somewhere, made a hook out of it and tied a fishing line (he wove it from threads, unraveling his socks). Even earlier, he had brought two nails and hid them in his pocket from searches. He pressed one smaller nail into the feeder with a bowl - he pressed it quietly, trying not to jingle, so that the guards would not hear, to this nail he tied a fishing line with a hook. We, all the other prisoners in the cell, watched him silently - I don’t know who experienced what feelings; but you are not supposed to interfere, everyone has the right to manage themselves and their lives the way they want.

Sergei walked up to the table, stripped naked, sat down on one of the benches near the table - and swallowed his hook. Now, if the guards start opening the door or the feeding trough, they will pull Sergei like a minnow from a pond. But this was not enough for him: if they pulled, he would involuntarily move towards the door, and it would be possible to cut the fishing line through the crack of the feeder. To be sure, Sergei took a second nail and began to nail his scrotum to the bench on which he was sitting. Now he hit the nail loudly, not caring about silence. It was clear that he had thought out his entire plan in advance, calculated everything and calculated that he would have time to hammer in this nail before the warden came running. And he really managed to drive it in right up to the top.

In response to the knocking and tinkling, the warden appeared, pulled back the shutter at the peephole, and looked into the cell. At first he probably understood only one thing: the prisoner has a nail, the prisoner is hammering in a nail! And his first instinct, apparently, was to take it away! He began to unlock the cell door. Then Sergei loudly explained to him how the matter stood. The warden was confused.

Soon a group of guards gathered in the corridor outside our door. Every now and then they looked through the peephole and shouted for Sergei to cut off the fishing line. Then, making sure that he was not going to do this, the guards demanded that one of us cut the line. We sat on our bunks without getting up: sometimes only someone scolded in response to demands and threats. But then it was time for lunch, you could hear distributors running along the corridor, feeders opened in neighboring cells, and bowls clinked. One guy from our cell couldn't stand it - just like that, you'll be left without lunch - he broke the rope at the feeder. The guards burst into the cell. They fussed around Sergei, but could not do anything: the nail was deeply embedded in the bench, and Sergei sat there in the clothes his mother gave birth in, nailed to his scrotum. One of the guards ran to find out from his superiors what to do with him. He returned, and we were all ordered to pack our things and were transferred to another cell.

I don’t know what happened to Sergei K. Then he probably ended up in the prison hospital - there are a lot of prisoners there who are “mutilators”: those with their stomachs ripped open, those who have poured glass powder into their eyes, and those who have swallowed various items- spoons, toothbrushes, wire. Some grind sugar into dust and inhale until a lung abscess forms... Wounds sewn up with thread, buttons in two rows sewn to naked body, - these are the little things that almost no one pays attention to.

The surgeon has extensive practice in the prison hospital; most often he has to open the stomach, and if there were a museum of things obtained from the stomach, it would probably be the most amazing collection in the world.

Tattoo removal operations are also common. I don’t know how it is now, but then, in 61-63, these operations were performed primitively: a flap of skin was simply cut out and the edges were pulled together and stitched. I remember one prisoner who was operated on this way three times. For the first time, they cut out a strip of skin from the forehead with the usual inscription for such cases: “Slave of Khrushchev.” The skin on the forehead was pulled together with a rough stitch. He was discharged - and again tattooed on his forehead: “Slave of the USSR.” They put me in the hospital again and had surgery again. And again, for the third time, he tattooed all over his forehead: “Slave of the CPSU.” This one was also cut out in the hospital. After three operations, the skin on his forehead was so tight that he could not close his eyes, we called him “the always looking”...

Here, in Vladimirka, I had the opportunity to sit in a cell with Subbotin for several days. It was a guy my age, a homosexual. There were few pederasts in Vladimirka; everyone knew them. They had no income here. He received a “political” one while in a domestic camp for complaining because he could not maintain “good manners.” Once, after 40 or 50 complaints submitted by him to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet to Brezhnev and to the Central Committee of the CPSU to Khrushchev, he swallowed the entire batch of dominoes - 28 dominoes. When we walked with the whole cell for a walk along the corridor (he swallowed a domino before the walk), he patted himself on the stomach and said to the guy from the servants he met: “Valerka, listen!” I don’t know, Valery actually heard the clatter of dominoes in Subbotin’s stomach, but he asked: “What do you have there?” “Do-mi-no,” drawled Subbotin. Subbotin's doctors did not operate. He was simply told to count the dominoes as he adjusted them, saying that they should come out on their own. Subbotin conscientiously counted them each time and, upon coming to the cell, marked with a pencil on a special piece of paper how many came out. No matter how diligently he counted, four pieces were missing. After several days of tedious waiting, he gave up on them: if they remained in the stomach, then as long as they did not interfere, and if they came out, then to hell with them.