Gold in the trunk

In the heading "Our contemporaries" is told by the prospector Sergey (Chelyabinsk region):

Until some time, this topic was generally closed. About gold mining, about the life of prospectors in state institutions, in the prospective artels. When you live, as I had to, in four walls of concrete blocks, with bars. I still remember the buzz of alarm, which worked around the clock. I remember when I had a breakdown. These were 1995-96. We opened the artel. Worked in Bashkiria. The presidential election was waiting. We hoped that our sector of gold mining was about to be in demand. People worked at the level, if not hard labor, then artisanal, with primitive working conditions. Moreover, the state did not know what to do with us, how to pay.

In 1996, when Yeltsin came, when we realized that no one was interested in gold, neither banks, nor affinable plants. In general, an interesting time. As the saying goes, I would know ... it was just necessary to put the obtained gold somewhere and wait for better times. And at that time we mined him and did not know what to do with him ...

In my position, I opened a license to carry and storage of weapons, since this is necessary when extracting, transporting and storage of gold. And there was such a paradox - I open a license for 6 trunks in Bashkiria. The 84th instruction stated that "to accompany only the armed guards." Literally, where is gold, there is a guard. We were assigned to the Kasimov affinable plant near Ryazan. This is 1500 kilometers from Bashkiria. I ask a question in Glavk: “I need to lead gold to Russia. How can I be? A license to carry weapons in my territory of Bashkiria. ” And they say: "Solve the problem yourself."

The case is a dummy. I am traveling around Bashkiria, I have a resolution to weapons, crossed the border, went to the territory of Russia, I can’t accompany gold with the Bashkir license, because I have no Russian weapons licenses. But I cannot accompany it without weapons. This is also an article. So what are we doing? Our chief engineer had an old Volga. We scored 20 kilograms of gold into the trunk in the spare wheel, respectively packaged - there are seals, inventory, everything is as it should be according to the instructions. It clogs this gold into the spare tire, we throw it with scrap metal, literally, carburetors, radiators. The trunk is large at the Volga, it is not difficult to hide the wheel. The rags are different, canisters with gasoline. We get in the three of us and without a break to Kasimov. Practically without stopping. The times were dashing. We come, some crumbs give us for gold. Moreover, when I worked on Pamir in good times, I received a specialty, I received some benefits. I received 30 rubles in a job. He came there as a kid. And here the guys who also worked 12 hours a day without days off, 1995-96, they received, God forbid, 8,000 rubles a month, because they took gold for nothing. Well, as a result, when Yeltsin came, we finalized and closed the season.

Further in the program:

"Beasts and Creativity" (Yuri Norshtein, Donald Reifield, Voices from the Archive: Alexey Parshchikov, Yuri Nikulin)

In the heading "My Favorite Records" the story of the fate of Tenor Joseph Schmidt (1904 -1942)

In the heading "Red Dry" - Radio House "Wine Lessons"

"I have never walked wine lessons and diligently attended them for almost half a century. I should not be convinced that the red thread of French culture is wine. It flows through the veins of French literature, music, painting. Already in my youth the question was tormented by Claude Monet and James (Jacques Joseph) Tisso" Breakfast on the grass "Ladies and gentlemen drink wine and the characters and the characters and the characters and the characters. Eduard Manet in the picture of the same name is neglected? "... read the essay completely.