The area of the disaster, includes the Zone and the “neutral”.
Shukshin, Vasily Makarovich, (25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director. “Shukshin's pose” means sitting on the ground with hands resting on legs, bent at the knees.
AK-47 – Kalashnikov's automatic rifle.
The KUNG is a Soviet then Russian term for a standardized military vehicle module/trailer system.
Kalashnikov hand-held machine gun.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The tablecloth which is spread on the ground.
A common name for any incredible thing.
A meaningless saying. Originally intended to demonstrate tricks.
Tools for detecting the Zone's traps.
Makarenko, Anton Semyonovich, (1(13) March 1888 – 1 April 1939) was a famous educator, writer, and one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy. Promoted democratic ideas and principles in educational theory and practice. Makarenko is often reckoned among the world's great educators.
Max Otto von Stierlitz (the other name is Isaev, Maxim Maximovich, and the real name is Vladimirov, Vsevolod Vladimirovich) is the lead character in a popular Russian book series written in the 1960s by novelist Yulian Semyonov. and dedicated to the work of the USSR intelligence service during the Second World War.
The disaster, which caused appearance of Mother-Trouble.
Russian Orthodox rite. Putting a candle in the church for a human means asking God to take care of this human personally.
Closed administrative territorial unit.
Kapustin's Quarantine Zone of Abnormal Intensities.
Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow Russia. Standing 540.1 meters (1,772 ft).
Kashchenko, Pyotr Petrovich (December 28, 1858 (9 January 1859), Yeysk – February 19, 1920, Moscow) was a famous Russian psychiatrist of Ukrainian origin, author of articles on mental health and mental health services. In 1889-1906 was a director and a Head of a few mental hospitals in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. From 1922 to 1994 the Moscow Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 was named after Kashchenko. Now the surname has become a common noun and is used in case of any oddities.
Skurmach (Russian: скурмач) – a fishing inspector.
The GAZ-66, a Soviet and later Russian 4x4 off-road military truck, nicknamed “shishiga”.
"A mop" in the Soviet-Russian Army jargon. (At the request of Ed. – S. Zh.)
Ellie the Cannibal is a character of the satiric novel “The twelve chairs“, written in 1928 by Ilya Ilf and Eugeny Petrov. Among other film adaptions, was filmed by Mark Zakharov in 1976. In a figurative sense, “Ellie the Cannibal“ is a vulgar, narrow-minded and sexy woman living at the expense of men for her pleasure; a person with limited horizons, living only by consumption, the acquisition of things and competition with dresses with other “ellies”.
A toy made of plastic – an almost full-sized green or red Maxim machine gun, was very popular in USSR.
Korchagin, Pavel Andreevich is the main character of the novel “How the steel was tempered” written by Nikolai Ostrovsky in 1932. Immediately after the publication of the novel, Pavel Korchagin, whose youth passed during the Civil War and fighting for the New Economic Policy in the struggle for communism and the happiness of the working people, became an ideal role model for several generations of Soviet people.
Shortened Kalashnikov automatic rifle.
Kashpirovsky, Anatoly Mikhailovich (Born on August 11>th, 1939 in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Soviet psychotherapist. In 1989, six programs named “Health sessions of the psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky” were broadcast on Central Television, during which Kashpirovsky allegedly cured about 10 million people from various diseases in just 6 hours of television broadcasting.
Marking a track with poles.
The PPSh-41 (Pistolet-pulemyot Shpagina. Russian: Пистолет-пулемёт Шпагина – “Shpagin machine pistol“) is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin in 1940.
The “magacitles” are colonizers from Earth who fled from the dying Atlantis to Mars. Characters of the science fiction novel “Aelita“ written by Tolstoy, Aleksey Ivanovich in 1923.
The Republic of ShKID (Russian: Республика ШКИД, romanized: Respublika ShKID) is a Soviet comedy-drama directed by Gennadi Poloka in 1966.