---
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: 5 of 12
url: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/5/
cite: "Alexei Gastev, tr. S. Alexander Laurent, A Pack of Orders · Пачка ордеров, section 5. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/5/"
---

# 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).

## 5. Order 03

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/5/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/5/#p-N

[¶0] ORDER 03

> Russian: ОРДЕР 03

[¶1] Doctors, to the ranks.

> Russian: Врачи, к шеренгам.

[¶2] Raise the temperature.

> Russian: Поднять температуру.

[¶3] Raise it by nine tenths of a degree.

> Russian: Повысить на девять десятых градуса.

[¶4] For the first ten.

> Russian: Первому десятку.

[¶5] Short pause.

> Russian: Малая пауза.

[¶6] Raise it for Hundred D.

> Russian: Повысить сотне Д.

[¶7] Long pause.

> Russian: Большая пауза.

[¶8] For Thousand E.

> Russian: Тысяче Е.

[¶9] To the machine tools, trowels, microscopes.

> Russian: К станкам, лопаткам, микроскопам.

[¶10] Raise it further.

> Russian: Повысить еще.

[¶11] By five tenths.

> Russian: На пять десятых.

[¶12] For Million S.

> Russian: Миллиону С.

[¶13] For thirty cities.

> Russian: Тридцати городам.

[¶14] For twenty states.

> Russian: Двадцати государствам.

[¶15] Agit-cannonade.

> Russian: Агитканонада.

[¶16] Labour-attacks-extra.

> Russian: Трудо-атаки-экстра.