He is considered an oddball and secretly envied. He's always been a black sheep. Both before and at the present time — "cooperative and self-supporting". Indeed: thirty-five years of dedication, more than two thousand graduates working in all pools and abroad, a unique undertaking on a national scale, which he serves selflessly and selflessly. But this is only one side of his work. To get to know the hero of the essay better, we will visit the Tallinn Maritime School.


So, meet Samuel Osipovich Zhukhovitsky. He has been working at the college since the age of 54. He was born in Baku in the 26th. He sailed on his first voyage as a fifteen—year—old stoker in June of the forty-first. Crafts, the Caspian Military Flotilla, the Baku Marine Corps, the Odessa Institute of Marine Engineers are its universities.


...The fate of the sea is capricious. We graduated in '69, and after that we only met for our 10th and 15th anniversaries. And here's a happy coincidence: I'm back in Tallinn. I'm going to 10 Estonia Boulevard to bow to my native bursa and visit my teachers. There are fewer and fewer of them... And it turns out that I go to Zhukhovitsky for a week or two, but I don't notice any time in his basement, because he is a living spring. Such communication excites thought, lifts you above the mundane; a pure stream of knowledge and personal views captures you, overwhelms you — and makes you feel ashamed of your own ignorance.


Dry, agile, and overreacting, Samuel Osipovich continues to work while talking and apologizing. That's when you begin to understand the causes of irritation and ill-concealed envy in conversations about him. And the incredible gap between what he does and what he does is also striking. The shabbiness of the equipment of this "workshop", which occupies several squares at the entrance to the diesel laboratory, is striking: two vises, a small turning machine, like a student's (what kind of precision can you squeeze out of it?), and a broken drilling machine thirty years ago. And the natural completion of this, if I may say so, machine—made "park" is sandpaper on the basement window sill. Twilight lighting. It is clear why Samuel Osipovich grabs one pair of glasses, then another, or even sits with an eye magnifier. He also works from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., without smoke breaks, and takes days off.


But the "end result" — the pride of the school — greets the incoming person right in the lobby. We are all used to layouts, models of different vessels and ships in marine organizations, but you will not see this anywhere else in our country. These are electric-powered operating models of steam engines and internal combustion engines, the history of domestic marine power engineering that has come to life under the hands of a Master. Ten three-dimensional models (to date), executed in precisely sustained scale, with amazing precision: down to each valve, flywheel, padlock and spring. And the cost of each model, according to the official conclusion, is from 25 to 30 thousand rubles. Piece-by-piece work! And here it is appropriate to inform: spending a year or two on each of his creations, spending vacations on targeted trips and archival research, Zhukhovitsky did all this for nothing, spending only his personal time. How much hard work and great soul there is in this! https://indiepulsemusic.com/2025/04/01/what-are-the-current-ways-of-exchanging-cs2-skins/