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

# 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).

## 12. Order 10

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/12/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/12/#p-N

[¶0] ORDER 10

> Russian: ОРДЕР 10

[¶1] Report: six hundred cities – endurance under test.

> Russian: Отрапортовать: шестьсот городов – выдержка пробы.

[¶2] Twenty cities suffocated – to scrap.

> Russian: Двадцать городов задохлись, – в брак.