---
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: 3 of 12
url: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/3/
cite: "Alexei Gastev, tr. S. Alexander Laurent, A Pack of Orders · Пачка ордеров, section 3. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/3/"
---

# 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).

## 3. Order 01

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/3/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/3/#p-N

[¶0] ORDER 01

> Russian: ОРДЕР 01

[¶1] Forty thousand in a rank.

> Russian: Сорок тысяч в шеренгу.

[¶2] Attention: eyes on the pressure gauge – solder them in.

> Russian: Смирно: глаза на манометр – впаять.

[¶3] Cast-iron-strip-gazes.

> Russian: Чугуно-полоса-взгляды.

[¶4] Line check – a volley.

> Russian: Проверка линии – залп.

[¶5] A shot along the line.

> Russian: Выстрел вдоль линии.

[¶6] Shellflight – ten millimetres from the foreheads.

> Russian: Снарядополет – десять миллиметров от лбов.

[¶7] Thirty foreheads licked off – people to scrap.

> Russian: Тридцать лбов слизано, – люди в брак.

[¶8] Thousand A – eastward.

> Russian: Тысяча А – к востоку.

[¶9] Column 10 – westward.

> Russian: Колонна 10 – на запад.

[¶10] Twenty-nine thousand – freeze.

> Russian: Двадцать девять тысяч, – замри.