19. But his father did not agree and said: I know, my son, I know; and from him shall come a people, and he shall be great; but his younger brother will be greater than him, and from his seed will come a numerous people. But Jacob answers him that his action was completely conscious, consistent and with

1,000,000 wagons will be brought to this place in the five-year period building materials. There will be a metallurgy giant, a coal giant and a city of hundreds of thousands of people.

From conversation.

Clouds are running across the sky, the twilight is squeezed by the rains, the workers are lying under the old cart. And he hears the whisper of the proud water and under and over: "In four years there will be a city-garden!" It is dark, leaden, and the rain is thick, like a tourniquet, the workers are sitting in the mud, sitting, burning a torch. The lips are drained from the cold, but the lips whisper in harmony: "In four years there will be a city-garden here!" The dankness has reduced to writhing - unimportant wet comfort, workers are sitting in the dark, chewing wet bread. But the whisper is louder than hunger - it covers drops of recession: “In four years there will be a garden city here! Here explosions will cackle in dispersal of bear gangs, and the hundred-cornered “Giant” will blow up the depths of the mine. Construction sites will rise here with walls. suns will ignite Siberia with open-hearths. Here they will give us a good house and a sieve one without rations, and the taiga, thrown back behind Baikal, will retreat." The worker's whisper grew over the theme of fat herds, and then it was unintelligible, only audible - "garden city". I know - the city will be, I know - the garden will bloom when there are such people in the Soviet country!

Note

Khrenov's story about Kuznetskstroy and the people of Kuznetsk. For the first time - journal. "Eccentric", M., 1929, No. 46, November.

Fucking, Iulian Petrovich (1901-1939) - an acquaintance of Mayakovsky, a participant in the construction of the Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works. Party member since 1918. In the years civil war- political worker. In 1922 - Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Council of the Union of Metalworkers. In 1929 he was sent to Kuznetskstroy. In 1933 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Donetsk regional party committee. In December 1933, by order of the People's Commissariat for Heavy Machinery of the USSR, I.P. Khrenov was appointed deputy director of the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant under construction, and after construction was completed in 1935, director of the Slavyansk Insulator Plant.

The artist N. Denisovsky recalls: “I met Julian Petrovich Khrenov at the apartment of V.V. Mayakovsky, who loved him very much. interesting about the heroic deeds of the people of Kuznetskstroy.

V. V. Mayakovsky, carried away by his story, wrote a poem "Khrenov's story about Kuznetskstroy and about the people of Kuznetsk" ("Komsomol banner", Kyiv, 1965, August 8),

The poem written by Mayakovsky reached the builders of Kuznetsk. Writer Alexander Smerdov, who was a correspondent at that time, recalled the mobilizing effect of Mayakovsky's poetic stanzas: "One of our lad-reinforcement workers read Mayakovsky's poem to the builders in the days when the concrete foundation for the first blast furnace was being prepared. The cold was such that the concrete workers did not have time to knead concrete, as it turned into stone, but the masons nevertheless laid the foundation. Buran strove to brush off the scaffolding of the carpenters who built the greenhouses over the future workshops, the frost so calcined the iron that the palms of the fitters froze to it, but the carpenters lifted the scaffolding higher and higher, the fitters they bent iron rods and wove the frames of workshops out of them.When the brigade comrades began to complain about the frost, the fitter Volodya, a Komsomol member, shouted out Mayakovsky's verses in a chilled voice:

The lips are drained from the cold, but the lips whisper in harmony: "In four years there will be a garden city here!

The lyrics worked very well...(B. Chelyshev. "Search, meetings, finds." Kemerovo book publishing house, 1963, p. 23).

Former chief construction engineer (later vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences) Ivan Pavlovich Bardin recalled the impression that Mayakovsky's poems made on the builders of Kuznetskstroy

"I would like ... to note that the appropriate participation of writers is of great benefit, - he said in one of his speeches.- So, the poet Mayakovsky in the most, perhaps, Hard times life of Kuznetskstroy, at the moment when the first commission that arrived at the construction site "fluffed" us to smithereens, he wrote his "The Story of Kuznetskstroy and the people of Kuznetsk" ... By this he supported our spirit, and we continued the work we had begun and considered it the most important thing in the realization of our dream "(Quoted from the book: B. Chelyshev. "Searchs, meetings, finds", Kemerovo book publishing house, 1963, pp. 25 - 26).

I know - the city will be, I know - the garden will bloom
From the poem "The Story of Kuznetskstroy and the people of Kuznetsk" (1929) by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930).
I know - / the city / will, / I know - / the garden / will bloom, When / there are such people / in the country / in the Soviet!
Phrase-symbol of social optimism.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M.: "Lokid-Press". Vadim Serov. 2003 .

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