How did I get into the nomenclature. Diploma
On the wave of your memory. In 1977, for the first time, the MPS introduced a one-time free ticket for students of railway universities. It was possible to go in a compartment car even to Vladivostok. I decided to visit my mother's sister, Aunt Anna, to see my cousins and see the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). But he planned the trip in such a way as to get to the wedding of classmates Yura Evseev and Olga Butorina at the station. The bottom, which is just on the way from Velikiye Luki to Leningrad. The free ticket was issued from Leningrad.
Arrived late in the evening in Dno, spent the night in Spartan conditions. Some of the guys went with the young to the registry office, and some were mobilized to cook sandwiches with caviar, red fish and other goodies. Yura's mother worked as the director of the ORSA - hence such an abundance. I will not describe the wedding, who has been - in the know. Everything went without incident.
The next morning we boarded a train to Leningrad. We were 6 people. We were handed a large box of apples (it was a good year). Divided - it turned out for a large package. So I ate apples to Sverdlovsk, and the fast train went there for almost two days. There, for several days, my sister took me to local attractions. I really liked the Kasli Casting Museum. It is hard to believe that all these elegant products are made of cast iron.
Before the New Year, they chose topics for graduation theses. I chose the airport. The project provided that it was supposed to serve three directions: local lines, all-Union and international. Location - Dnepropetrovsk. The trend was the BAM area. But my curator for structures was Associate Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Mazhara, who taught wooden structures. We chose an area with small snow loads.
Undergraduate practice
Undergraduate practice
But before that, we went to Moscow for undergraduate practice. We arrived in the morning by train "Change" to the Leningradsky railway station. While they were waiting for the bus, Vitya Fedorov bought a ticket for the Sprint instant lottery at a kiosk and bam - he won 100 rubles. That is two scholarships.
The girls, who were in the majority in the group, were accommodated in a dormitory of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, and the boys were accommodated in a dormitory where students of the Faculty of Economics, foreign students and graduate students lived. It was a modern 12-storey hostel with blocks for two double rooms with a bathroom and shower. The kitchen was equipped with several such blocks. It was located a block behind the Cosmos Hotel, which was under construction.
We were settled in the reading room of the library, replacing the tables on the bed. In addition to us, students from the Rostov and Novosibirsk institutes came to practice. The practice took place between February 23 and March 8. A stormy life began.
We got up at 8 in the morning and ran to the dumpling shop opposite the hostel. At 8:30 a bus came, we went to pick up the girls and then on excursions. Watched historical buildings, Olympic venues under construction (two years before the 1980 Olympics). Housing construction objects - for example, the area of Northern Chertanovo. Apartments in high-rise buildings (up to 24 floors) were fully finished and equipped, not only with sanitary equipment, but also with a set of built-in kitchen furniture, built-in hallway furniture and other goodies. Tours ended at about two o'clock in the afternoon, and free time began.
Photo from undergraduate practice
I managed to get into the Pushkin Museum, the Museum of the Soviet Army, the Zhukovsky Museum, the Museum of Architecture. In those days, the days of the FRG were held in Moscow. I managed to look at German modern cars. The Museum of Architecture also had an exhibition of Germany.
I liked the interesting design for covering public buildings (cafes, restaurants, markets, exhibitions). Wooden glued beams were interconnected by hinges in a network of rectangular cells. This network was suspended by cables of various lengths to reinforced concrete racks, forming a cover of any bizarre shape. From above it was sheathed with a metal sheet or polymeric materials (such as polycarbonate).
The main thing is that after running around the capital, it was necessary to have time to get to a cafe next to Cosmos before 7 pm. There you can eat inexpensively and qualitatively. At 19:00, dinner began at the Yugoslav builders of the hotel, and it was no longer possible to get there. At 8 pm entertainment events began in the assembly hall. Given the predominantly female contingent of the Faculty of Economics, we were in great demand.
In general, they got to the bed in the first hour. In the morning, the process was resumed on a new one. Upon arrival in St. Petersburg, we, together with two other students who designed the terminal, visited the Aeroproject Institute and looked at standard designs of terminals. But to be honest, they are not very impressed.
Drawings from an exhibition
"My station"
The head of the department of architecture, previously mentioned Igor Georgievich Yavein, was the main supervisor of my graduation project. Having translated a bunch of graph paper by the end of March, they finally approved the draft design. My air terminal was a central three-story high operating room, hexagonal irregular shape, from which three boarding pavilions departed at the level of the second and third floors.
The first floor of the operating room and the station square with parking lots and public transport stops were located 4 m below the level of the airfield, which completely guaranteed that a passenger would not enter the airfield. Passengers got to the station square through an underground tunnel.
The second floor was connected to the first floors of the boarding pavilions and equipped for baggage handling. And from the gallery of the third floor, passengers got to the second floor of the pavilions, boarding and disembarking was carried out using retractable ladders. Each pavilion was divided by a longitudinal partition, the right side served for boarding, and the left side for disembarking passengers. The pavilions had a metal frame and walls glazed with stained glass.
The operating room also had stained glass walls. The covering of the operating room was based on 6 monolithic pylons up to 15 m high and was a structural truss made of aluminum pipes. It was covered with glued plywood panels (hello to the constructive curator) with an internal heat-insulating layer of expanded polystyrene. The roof was protected from precipitation by a polymer membrane.
There was only one problem - such designs are calculated only on a computer. Not on some kind of "Promini", but on a serious one - like "Minsk-32". N. I. Mazhara agreed with the leadership of Lenproekt, and I was given 15 minutes of computer time. I went there to get tables to fill in the initial data.
The computer occupied the whole mansion of some rich merchant on Kamenny Island. 4 days filled in the tables, because the farm consisted of 108 rods. It was necessary to indicate the coordinates of each node in the X, Y, Z axes, distributed and concentrated loads, vertical and horizontal wind loads. Appointed the exact time when I should come for the result.
I came, sat in the lobby for about 20 minutes. A girl came out and handed me a hefty roll of paper with the results of calculations. There were both my initial data, and the longitudinal and transverse forces in each rod and node, the bending moment. All evening I cut this hefty roll into A4 sheets to hem into the diploma album. The selection of the section of the aluminum pipe took 5 minutes. I also calculated the reinforcement of monolithic pylons. For landing pavilions used standard designs.
They also designed engineering systems in the diploma: heating, ventilation, water supply and sewerage, electrical networks, but rather superficially. In the form of calculation of the required resources and layouts of devices and systems. Sections of pipes and so on approximately, since the architectural project was a shock.
In addition to plans, facades and sections, schemes of engineering networks, they developed the technology for mounting structures, as well as work schedules. Including network. Provided for the installation of a structural truss by helicopter. Its weight allowed it to be lifted by a Mi-6 helicopter.
It was also necessary to prepare two plates with washing. Building facade and perspective. The facade of the terminal with pavilions occupied a 2,2x0,6 m plank. points of convergence I had to draw it by hand.
Those who have been involved in washing know that after applying a layer, you need to let it dry so that there are no stains. When washing the facade, while I was applying a layer to the middle and right pavilions, the left one was already drying. So the process became continuous. At the same time, the hillshade was done on the perspective. In short, on the third day my legs were swollen, so much so that it was painful to step on.
In general, he spat on everything, and went home for three days - to Velikiye Luki, since all the other sections of the diploma were almost ready.
We were all young once...
DEF
After the May holidays, the leaders determined who would defend on which day, depending on the readiness of the students. I got on the first day of the defense and was supposed to be third in line by lot. Signing the diploma and seeing my tablets, Igor Georgievich said: "You will be the last to defend yourself." When I started to resent, he added: “You don’t want your comrades to get low grades, do you?” On my tablets, in addition to buildings, there were planes on the airfield, buses on the forecourt, etc.
On the first day, 8 people defended. In the commission, in addition to the teachers of LIIZhTA, there were representatives of the Lenzheldorproject, the Office of the October Railway, and some other specialists. In the morning, of course, there was a certain jitters. But as the defense progressed, I helped my classmates hang up the drawings, arrange the tablets.
It was my turn, all fears were gone. I calmly, in an even voice, began to talk about my project, and when I started the installation technology and the network schedule for the production of work, they told me “thank you - that's enough”. I began to say that I had not yet told about the installation by helicopter. Igor Georgievich came up and said: “Calm down, the commission is just tired and wants to eat. Defended perfectly. Well done!"
And although I defended myself, for another week I helped my classmates improve their tablets - I drew trees, cars and other exterior elements. Also, for my school classmate from the bridge group, he drew a train in the perspective of the bridge he designed.
After graduation. Peterhof
Distribution
We waited several days for the diplomas to be issued. On Sunday, the curator of our group invited everyone to his dacha. Almost an hour by train towards Volkhovstroy and ten minutes from the station to the dachas by bus. He built the dacha himself, and inside there were a lot of all sorts of improvements and improvements, such as, for example, boxes for small items built into the ends of the stairs to the second floor. Folding furniture in the gazebo. In order to catch the return train, I had to walk, as the bus was on schedule much later. In general, they walked along the highway and yelled songs.
Distribution began on Monday. As I wrote earlier, my turn in the lists was the fourth. I wanted something closer to home, so that I could drive home to Velikiye Luki. These were organizations in the city of Rzhev, 4,5 hours by train. The position of a foreman in the Construction and Assembly train No. 683 and a foreman in the NGCH. But the NMS is engaged in the repair and maintenance of facilities, and the prospect of obtaining housing was not great. In the Ministry of Railways then young specialists were provided with housing out of turn. SMP was usually engaged in housing construction, and there the probability was much higher.
In addition, the construction of real facilities made it possible to improve qualifications in practice, and there was a prospect of career growth. Therefore, I chose the position of a construction foreman at SMP-683. Some guys decided to go to BAM, someone went to the army. Most Leningraders settled in the northern capital. Many girls in the last year got married and went on distribution with their husbands.
The next day we had a graduation party in the restaurant of the newly built Youth House with a feast and music. Then they wandered around the city until the morning. End of June - white nights. We rented rooms to the commandant of the hostel, packed our things and went home, on vacation. It was necessary to appear at a new place of work in the first days of August.
My father then bought a Moskvich-2140 car - the turn came up. Therefore, we went to visit my father's cousin in Riga, along the route Daugavpils - Panevezys (Lithuania) - Bauska - Riga. We went to my uncle's dacha on the Riga seaside, but we couldn't swim - the wind rose and it began to rain.
But the vacation was over, and I went to Rzhev. But more on that in the next post.
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