Think of the
early 1960s. Gagarin's flight into space. When I was in elementary
school, it was popular to insert a color photo of a student into a
small plastic rocket and look at the light. Remember that
entertainment. Well, most people haven't seen one. I'll try to find it
online.
I didn't find something. We should go to the vernissage in Izmailovo.
Maybe I will. Then I will take a photo and put it in the text here. Or
maybe someone else. Send me!
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The day before yesterday and yesterday, I
watched Elon Musk’s spacecraft first launch to the International Space
Station, as the Dragon spacecraft docked against the Station. And I
remembered that when I worked at the Moscow bakery No. 6, our brigade
was called “cosmonauts”. Where did that come from? It’s a long story,
but it should be told from the beginning.
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Almost
30 years ago, I went to work at Khlebozavod No. 12 (on the site of
which a residential quarter has now been built), which was located near
the Aviamotornaya metro station, near the Moscow Energy Institute. I
worked there as an electric locksmith of the 5th grade. We were engaged
there in the maintenance of control and measuring instruments and
automation systems. Automation was primitive at the time, but still.
Our service area also included a scoop-type dosing station.
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design consists of a cross, at the ends of which scoops (glasses) are
attached, the volume of which can be mechanically adjusted. This design
rotates in a tank with the desired liquid (salt solution, sugar
solution, yeast solution, etc.), each scoop captures a certain amount
of liquid and pours into a special tray through which this liquid
drains into a continuous dough mixing machine. The maintenance was to
change the volume of scoops, at the direction of the technologist, when
it was necessary to change the formulation. The process is long,
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I
wondered if there was another, more technological method of dosing
liquid components.
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And
the year before, I was dealing with Tov. Zaletin, who worked either at
the CUP (Flight Control Center), or at the NPO ENERGY. In general, in
the Korolev, on one of the space companies. And we met him on the
subject of recording radioactive radiation. We were introduced by
Mikhail Vladyko, from Chernogolovka. And so Zaletin asked to make him a
dosimeter for some experiments in space. I did. Communication
continued. And somehow, whether in conversation or how, he introduced
me to a friend of a Korolev space firm who sold me a turbine flowmeter
as the first sample for a liquid dispenser.
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I assembled the
scheme, assembled the design, and installed the resulting dispenser on
the dosing unit of the ACC furnace, on which soldiers made bread. This
was all at Bread Factory No. 12. And why on soldier's bread - and he
had the simplest recipe - flour, water salt and yeast. And with the
help of this dispenser, a solution of salt was dosed into a test mixer.
The dispenser worked continuously for two months and showed a good
result. Then they decided to make the entire dosing station for white
bread on these turbine flow meters.
We needed turbine flow meters. Where can I get it? Again, I had to
contact the space science center of the city of Korolev.
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In short, at
that time in the early 1990s, these flowmeters at the space firm were
of no value – and were easily acquired by us through trivial exchange.
One flowmeter changed to 1 kg of butter, 1 kg of yeast, and a lot of
sugar there.
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How was the
exchange? On the car "Zhiguli" Main Energy Viktor Amelyutin, under a
layer of wires and electric motors in the trunk of the car, a bag with
the necessary food ingredients was taken out. At the tram stop, the bag
was pulled out of Zhiguly, I took it and boarded the tram, which went
to the Yaroslavl station, to Komsomolskaya Square. The smell in the
tram was good from yeast. The yeast was fresh. In the cafe at the
Yaroslavl railway station there was an exchange of one bag with food
for another bag with iron. It's almost like spy movies.
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This is how
technological and technological progress in the food industry went at
that time. That was 1991-1993. Hard times in the Soviet Union.
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The following
year, a friend from the Institute of Space Instrumentation, on
Aviamotornaya Street, near Khlebozavod No. 12, asked me to make a
dosing station at the bakery No. 6, in Khamovniki. And before that, two
years ago, this Institute had already made a dosing station for this
Bread Plant, as part of the transfer of scientific and technical
achievements from space to the national economy. But it did not go, but
the word Cosmos in the factory was fixed. I came with Andrey to the
Bread Factory. There he introduced me to Volodya Lapin, a friend of the
Chief Engineer, and the manufacturer of a number of works at the
Khlebozavod. We talked. A brigade was formed: V. Lapin - Brigadier,
Andrei - Designer, Sergey, Lieutenant Colonel from the headquarters of
the Ground Forces - Supplier, and I - ideologist and technologist.
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And we were
called "cosmonauts" at the factory. Start working. And Andrey worked at
the Institute of Space Instrumentation Zav. Laboratory of Telemetry of
the Earth-Casiopeia radio channel. Or whatever, Venus, Mars. He said
that his receivers transmitters fly to Mars Venus, etc. He went to the
main job only on Fridays, and most of the time he worked at the
Blebozavod. Since the salary at the bakery was several times higher
than at the Institute of Space Instrumentation.
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