The hands and the work that they do. Hands, who played 5000 concerts dug up 150 tons of potatoes, done 20,000 operations, and other eminent hands.
1. Hands, drew 40 000 cartoons
Nemtsov Efimov . Cartoonist, 104 years (September 28, marks 105 years)
"A lot of good hands I shook. I clearly remember shaking hands of Mussolini. It took the Soviet delegation of 11 people and each individually greeted. Mussolini was gorgeous, spectacular - in a white civilian suit, tanned, in two-tone shoes. Just dandy. And who would have thought then that he would hang upside down? In general, with many of the great of this world I've ever communicate. I have seen and heard of Lenin, I accompanied on his last journey Lunacharsky. Stalin once said on the phone while standing. Dined with Tito . But the bitterest of all, I remember how I said goodbye to Leon Davidovich Trotsky, when he was exiled to Alma-Ata. We embraced and kissed him, and he gave me his coat when I was leaving. I told him: "What are you, Lev Davidovich." And he said: "No, no, no" - and still holding his coat and held it, and I was embarrassed, of course. And then, when I was asked to portray him as an enemy of the people, which was to go? I would answer: "I've always admired and loved Lev Davidovich and draw cartoons on it will not." But I also had a wife, parent, son, already a decade - all of them to ruin? They would be taken to a camp on the same day. I gave up. Well it was good or bad? It is not known. Wisdom is that all right. You know, like in my favorite poem by Mayakovsky
The horse said, looking at the camel:
"What a giant horse-fucker."
Camel as he cried out, "Yes, the horse did not you?
You simply - camel underdeveloped. "
And God only knew the gray-bearded,
What is it - the animals of different breeds. "
2. Hands, which revealed more than 8000 corpses
Joseph Solomonovich Laskavy . Pathologist 1st Gradskaya Hospital, aged 68
"According to the stereotype, the pathologist arrives in the morning, drink a glass of alcohol treasury, rolls up his sleeves, takes a large knife and guts all day corpses. In fact, our main work - the study of micropreparations taken a surgeon from a piece of the corpse, in order to determine what there is disease. But the stereotype persists. Because all seen enough American movies. There's always this little Jew with glasses, to which the detective comes with charcoal in hand, and he establishes that this coal has been in the past the white race a man 32 years and two hours before his death, eat chicken. Or here's another image: a bully with hairy arms and hairy chest. To me successfully combines these two characters: on the one hand, a Jew, wearing glasses, on the other - I have hairy arms. "
3. The hands that made more than 3,000 circumcisions
Yishai Shafit . Moel, 41
"Hands mohel can be found in thousands of others, just look at the thumb and forefinger. The fact is that babies cut without surgical gloves, because at one stage of operation necessary to use nails. The procedure itself consists of three parts: the foreskin is cut off, and then breaks the inner layer of the foreskin and the third part - from where the cut off, a drop of blood is drawn off for a speedy recovery. That's just the second phase and need your nails to your thumb and forefinger, which should be specially sharpened. Adults also operate with gloves and the inner layer of the foreskin is cut with scissors. "
4. Hands, 4116 pushed the mouth once a predator
Askold Zapashnyy . Trainer predators, Honored Artist of Russia, 27 years old
"If you want to know if I put a hand when the jaws of a predator, then actually I do it almost every day. Not that hand, her head thrust back. Animals for this issue specifically, we select and nurture start very young. Not everyone is a predator trainer, pet, and we have a tiger Martin, we have great confidence in him - he is funky. That means - not always rushes. "
5. The hands that made the 7500 plastic surgery
Alexis Borovikov . The head of the Institute of Plastic Surgery, 54,
"I am a surgeon . I bleed, but it is associated with risk of death. And if the patient is ready to take those risks, so he really has a strong desire to change the features of the body. My job - to help him. Girl Wants silicone breast cubes 800 - why not? My hands could change her fate. "
6. Hands, who played violin concertos 5000
Tatiana Tikhonovna Grindenko . People's Artist of Russia, head of the ensemble "The Academy of Ancient Music," and «Opus posth», 59 years
"At first I really took care of my hands - I'm also a musician. But it was when I received the blessing of one old man, from Soviet times, to restore the church and build a church house. Then these very hands I was kneading the clay, straw and manure. It was the first time in my life when I did not took care of them - the idea was beyond my fears. "
7. Hands, who built 33 houses
Nicholas A. Krasko . Builder, 51 years
"I build houses out of wood. Ranks himself, from the foundation to the last nail. People do not believe in, they say, Behold the rafters - as you put you one? I also have a system, special devices. That's climber does not ask what he climbs into the mountains alone? Likewise, I want to prove myself that I can overpower a new height. You take in hand the board of lime - it also feels like silk. That is why from her bath building - never splinters will not. "
8. The hands that held 260 dolls
Vladimir Karpovich Mihitarov . Puppeteer, 59 years old
"I played the role of ceremonies after Zinovy Gerdt Yefimovich, and for me his work was the top skill. I had to play the Entertainer and Hebrew, and Farsi. But the first show I was in Japan. After the show, I appeal to the audience: "Do-de-se" ("Well?"). Silence. They are shocked. And then I say in Japanese: "Now I'll reveal the secret. You will not believe it, but everyone who played in front of you right now - the doll. " Again a pause. I continue: "I'll get you another terrible secret: I, too, doll." And here is started ... ovation. "
9. Hands, who made 15 000 sessions of healing
Allan V. Chumak . President of the Regional Public Fund for Research and Social paranormal phenomena, 70
"People often ask me how I ran a hand and I can tell you all about your disease. Just I do not take all the complex. Although, in principle, I can work and no hands. This is only an auxiliary tool. If tomorrow they, for example, take and cut off - I'm just still not lose his gift. "
10. Hands tied over 3,000 pioneer ties
Lyudmila Ilyinichna Sosnovik . Pioneer leader, 82 years
"It was a pioneer camp in 1939. Everybody's gone camping, and I look - in one of the chambers is a light. Gone, and there homeless sleeping on it and run lice. Questioned: name Eugene, parents have died. Me for it from his superiors strongly inherited, but it soon disappeared. Three days later came together with friends. During the war waif Gene Shkurdalov received the Hero of the Soviet Union in the Battle of Prokhorovka. A friend of his, whom he led in the camp, Grisha Rychkalov, was twice a hero! "
11. Hands, scoop out 150 tons of potatoes
Lydia P. Morozov . Peasant Woman, 78 years
"What is land? This is our mother's nurse. A correspondent of one said that the mud! Dirt! So is this the way you can. I can not, I'm going to cry! What's going on here? Nobody mows, not digging - how much good is lost. Would I have the phone to Putin, I would have called him and told him about this. I boys who travel by bicycle, driving here - first, all the grass izomnut, and then wonder why the store is expensive milk. I worked on the farm and the farm. And in 1961 my friends and two rabbits given - male and female. I took up rabbit. Brought a few rocks, the best was in the Moscow region. She also went to the Exhibition Center, was there for my rabbits 70 rubles prize. Now I have 40 pieces - each with eight kilogramm.Ty try them grow! He is born, almost mouse: a small, naked. Every day for two bags of grass for them kosha. "
12. The hands that made nearly 20 000 cardiac surgery
Leo Bokeria Antonovich . Director of Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. AN Bakulev Medical Sciences, Lenin Prize and State Prize, Honored Scientist of Russia, Academician of RAMS, the chief cardiac surgeon of the Russian Federation, 65
"The heart never looks scared. It is very beautiful. This body is amazingly built. There is nothing superfluous - two atria, two ventricles and blood vessels that nourish it. The left ventricle of a smooth surface, right, by contrast, is composed of many muscle units. There are time-consuming, when the patient is pinched aorta - a couple of hours stops the heart. And you know - now you need concentration, patience and a uniform attitude to everything that is happening during this time. "