Uvarova Murmansk biography

News Tape Article 4, tortoise soup, pineapple and “Seven feet under the keel! The former sailor from Uvarov spoke about the New Year on the ship, a resident of Uvarov Nikolai Kolesnik can tell a lot about sea storms, hot shifts in the machine department, many months of flights abroad. But most of all he likes to remember the New Year holidays held on the ship. I did not study long, externally passed all the exams.

I was still small when someone gave me a dishevef's inscription "sailor", since then I dreamed of getting on a ship,-says Nikolai. Photo: The archive of Nikolai Kolesnik after the school, the young man got a job as a motorist’s production refrigerator by a motorist. He visited Canada, England, Africa. New Year celebrated, making a flight to Italy. A good gift for the holiday was a tour of Pompeii and a walk in Rome, and on New Year's Eve itself the ship was already at sea.

Photo: Archive of Nikolai Kolesnik, preparation for the celebration began ahead of time. We had some ordinary Christmas tree toys, but we also hung bolts with nuts on the New Year tree. The Christmas tree, of course, is artificial: where to get alive in the sea? Thinking for the New Year's table menu. The village, yes, was welcomed in the New Year's menu. Which is now sold in our stores - a tulle in comparison with that, ”says Nikolai.

Sailors also did not count pineapples for the delicacy.

Their motorists were given daily, as well as a condensed milk, for harmfulness. In the machine department, work, as in Peckla: heat up to 70 degrees. On New Year's Eve, the COKI pleased the crew with meat. If on ordinary days on the table along with buckwheat often a cow's udder was served, then on the holiday necessarily beef and pork - both stew and boiled.

Home pickles were in great demand. In the same Italy, there is no one, but there is no twist, ”said Nikolai Kolesnik. Photo: Archive of Nikolai Kolesnik Baking on a holiday was necessarily served. The former sailor still recalls pies with rice and potatoes, donuts with jam, prepared by Coca for the New Year. On weekdays, donuts did not manage to taste it every day. The highlight of the New Year's menu has become a turtle soup.

We see that a huge turtle is floating into the sea, the boats were lowered, a special network for lifting the load was captured, and in pursuit. Then the network under the turtle was brought down, well, it was delivered to Coks, - Nikolai shares his memories. Before the chimes, the sailors put on the best outfits. Not costumes with ties, but scarce jeans in the Soviet Union.

They were with everyone who had the opportunity to go abroad. Moreover, it was necessary to pay with three five -pick -up coins. The locals flatten them and made some crafts from them, ”says the former sailor. The sailors also cared about the cultural program. Santa Claus and Snow Maiden appeared in the wardroom, held all kinds of contests. There were guitars, button accordions, drums on the ship, an ensemble consisted of amateur musicians, and dancing on New Year's Eve passed to live music.

Photo: Archive of Nikolai Kolesnik Midnight in Moscow time - the most solemn moment. This is the time when sailors turn to each other with a traditional wish: “Seven feet under the keel! Well, then the toasts for the health that remained on the shore of relatives are a good flight. After working on the production refrigerator "Vitus Bering". Nikolai Kolesnik went into the army, served on a warship, which was based in Syria.

Photo: The archive of Nikolai Kolesnika then remained on the super -worker, was a midshipman, the foreman of the crane operators on the ship's assembly ship Berezina. He gave the service in the military fleet for nine years.