---
title: "A Pack of Orders · Пачка ордеров"
author: "Alexei Gastev"
translator: "S. Alexander Laurent"
title_ru: "Пачка ордеров"
author_ru: "Алексей Гастев"
languages: [ru, en]
shelf: "LCI editions"
section: 10 of 12
url: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/10/
cite: "Alexei Gastev, tr. S. Alexander Laurent, A Pack of Orders · Пачка ордеров, section 10. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/10/"
---

# A Pack of Orders · Пачка ордеров

*Alexei Gastev, tr. S. Alexander Laurent*

Russian: Пачка ордеров, Алексей Гастев

“Forty thousand in a rank. Attention: eyes on the pressure gauge.” Gastev’s 1921 poem in ten orders, to be read at one speed, like instructions fed to a machine. In Russian and English.

> Russian: А. Гастев, Пачка ордеров (Riga, 1921).

> English: Laurentium Cultural Industries, project translation (8 October 2026).

## 10. Order 08

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/10/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/10/#p-N

[¶0] ORDER 08

> Russian: ОРДЕР 08

[¶1] Fire off an area of black.

> Russian: Выстрелить площадь черного.

[¶2] Hurl cubes of yellow to the electric cranes.

> Russian: Кубы желтого швырнуть электрокранам.

[¶3] Scatter events over planes and cubes.

> Russian: На плоскости и кубы разбросать события.

[¶4] Set in circular motion.

> Russian: Дать круговое движение.

[¶5] Intersect it all along the axis.

> Russian: Пересечь всё по оси.

[¶6] Twenty centuries into a staircase.

> Russian: Двадцать веков в лестницу.

[¶7] Hurl the staircase into the planes.

> Russian: Лестницу ринуть в плоскости.

[¶8] Set rotating.

> Russian: Дать вращение.

[¶9] Speed – a million centuries a minute.

> Russian: Скорость – миллион веков минута.

[¶10] Compress.

> Russian: Спрессовать.

[¶11] Provide a point of condensation.

> Russian: Дать точку конденсации.

[¶12] Attention pause.

> Russian: Пауза внимания.

[¶13] Inject all this by syringe into human trunk-lines.

> Russian: Ввести все это шприцами людским магистралям.

[¶14] Raise blizzards on the molecules.

> Russian: Поднять бураны на молекулах.

[¶15] Introduce all this into microatoms.

> Russian: Ввести все это в микроатомы.

[¶16] March of the trunk-lines from pole to equator.

> Russian: Марш магистралей с полюса на экватор.

[¶17] Countermarch: from equator to pole.

> Russian: Встречный марш: с экватора на полюс.