---
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: 11 of 12
url: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/11/
cite: "Alexei Gastev, tr. S. Alexander Laurent, A Pack of Orders · Пачка ордеров, section 11. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/11/"
---

# 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).

## 11. Order 09

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/11/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/11/#p-N

[¶0] ORDER 09

> Russian: ОРДЕР 09

[¶1] Open the battle.

> Russian: Открыть битву.

[¶2] With hands, with chest.

> Russian: Руками, грудью.

[¶3] Cancel that.

> Russian: Отставить.

[¶4] Battle by hypnosis.

> Russian: Битва гипнозом.

[¶5] Manoeuvre back.

> Russian: Маневр назад.

[¶6] Mobilise four trunk-lines at a time.

> Russian: Мобилизовать по четыре магистрали.

[¶7] Battle of syllogisms.

> Russian: Битва силлогизмов.

[¶8] Readings by pressure gauge.

> Russian: Показания манометром.

[¶9] Burn with Y-rays.

> Russian: Жечь игрек-лучами.

[¶10] Intensely oxygenate the rear.

> Russian: Усиленно кислородить тылы.

[¶11] Nitrogenate the opponents.

> Russian: Азотировать противников.

[¶12] Wash the brains.

> Russian: Промыть мозги.

[¶13] Pause.

> Russian: Пауза.

[¶14] Disrupt orientation in space.

> Russian: Сбить ориентировку в пространстве.

[¶15] Switch on the sense of time.

> Russian: Включить чувство времени.

[¶16] Drop darkness on the crowds.

> Russian: Уронить на толпы мрак.

[¶17] A dam of people under a dam of people.

> Russian: Плотина людей под плотину людей.

[¶18] Mad women, give birth.

> Russian: Сумасшедшие женщины, рожайте.

[¶19] Give birth immediately, urgently.

> Russian: Рожайте немедленно, срочно.