we have spent a short time in the new day and we are working on this music, music, what a thick inside of our skin we have. yana pausyul, at the sun, at

the timid hands, at the tips of our fingers, the music is soothing, aspirational thoughts and opens thousands of gifts to us. music can change the light, as much as it can change the light. us, the music inside our skin.

when you make an instrument, you can’t think about money. what is a person who makes musical instruments like? in my opinion, it should be a person who loves music very much, you can’t live without it, it should be a person, well, as people say, golden hands, there must be, yes, a person ready to devote his life to something for which

it is important, say, there is not some promising job with a high salary, but who puts or perhaps some kind of this goal or idea comes to mind. most likely it can be done, but here the tool, which will be special, most likely will not work out, this is the line where craft ends , production begins, art begins. i myself am a native penchan, i was born in this city, my mother is russian from the city

yazma, the indigenous father, as it was, is small. somewhere in the belarusian forests on the crossing between orsha and minsk, at some substation, the partisans captured this train, freed everyone, well, they didn’t just free them, they took them away. they took with them, well, it happened that together with the partisans, my grandmother and my mother ended up in minsk, my grandmother worked in an orphanage, well, my mother was naturally with her, so they ended up in this destroyed minsk, their whole

life, in fact began anew in belarus, and my father, a native penchan uh... poleshok, and even after that he did not directly take part in hostilities , the territory was under occupation when his father was liberated, in 1944 he turned 17, well, he was drafted into the army as a reserve, well, of course, in order to send you need to somehow prepare , in other words, when they were brought there, the war , fortunately , had already ended, but since... those who fought were sent home, for the most part, those who had just arrived continued to serve, and after finishing his service , my father returned and graduated from medical school in pinsk. school, then went to enter minsk,

medical institute, in fact, that ’s where they met my future mother, both doctors studied together. well, then we came here to pinsk, so sometimes they ask me, so do you feel like who you are, russian, yes, belarusian, yes, well, when they told me in my passport, well, that’s when they gave me soviet, what nationality to write down, well, what will i do? having been born in pinsk with a surname to write that it was russian, belarusian, as it is, by the way, then this was of particular significance. to be honest, i don't really care right now i see that over all these many, many years, well, maybe it was this difficult time that left its mark, well, my parents very obviously treated everyone like that back then, only after the war

it was very difficult to live, they treated their work very responsibly, well, as my father, this is not just a job, this is when you save a life, this is the most important indicator after yours, after applying your knowledge, whether a person is alive or not, he... worked - as a surgeon , postgraduate study at the minsk medical institute, wrote a dissertation, was highlighted, sent to him an academic degree, in pinsk, in the pinsk region, in nearby areas, over all these long years, probably thousands of people owe him, some with their health, some with their lives, his father had government awards, medals, orders, was awarded. a special medal that is awarded specifically to the surgeon - the pirogov medal

, he even has in his collection, i just don’t remember, there is even a golden alpel, well, for these services he was awarded the honorary title of citizen of the city of insk, and after his death, here is one of the new streets in the city of pinsk was named after him. pinsk was born in 1963, i had an older brother, he is 5 years older than me, we lived near the railway station, well, in such an ordinary house, without amenities. i lead, well, since my brother was older, his parents, as

people, well, let’s say, cultured, uh, decided to teach him music, well, to give him some opportunity, they bought a piano, and my brother studied the piano there for some time things started to turn out very well, but my brother was 5 years older than me, when the teacher was already approaching me to go to school, well first... there's first grade , there's second grade, that's nothing, and then they asked me , do you want to play opionine? i probably don’t understand it myself, maybe i don’t understand it yet, well, so they enrolled me in a music school, there i had to pass an exam, sing some kind of song, sang it, in short, they accepted me, i began to go too... music school, because fordepian was at home, the choice was as if

obvious, there is playing there, during time, when i already started going to music school there, not the first second, already somewhere in the third, fourth grade, it turned out that there was another additional subject, well, as a rule, it was either an ensemble of folk instruments, or a choir or an orchestra of russian folk instruments. i ended up in an orchestra of russian folk instruments, and as they say, ostap was carried away, for the first time i felt that you can study music and do it, as if not just forcing yourself to do it there, but simply what you want to do there it turns out and you have fun there from you there, well , maybe not everything works out right away, so you were sitting in the orchestra next to you, yours. comrades , that is, in principle , there were several musicians for each party, that is, if there was one,

if there was a party for a second, then there were two or three musicians, she was there too, that is , well, in the end, if one suddenly there somehow- then he makes a mistake, then there is a high probability that the rest will play correctly, that is, on the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, you had to listen to this whole orchestra, and the conductor somehow the face, well, that’s also kind of some... there were difficulties, because when you play yourself, you can play rhythmically, especially when you learn this way and that, little by little, i realized that first you need to look at the conductor, when he waves he starts, and then you can basically listen to the bass, if you are sure that the bass is playing correctly, you can basically there, well, when you know your part, you don’t have to look too hard, we didn’t have such a difficult part, in fact it it turned out to be not so difficult, but the music worked.

that’s actually how i came to bololaika, well already more thoroughly, my wives got married as students, after the third year i had a custom-made instrument, that is, the work of a master from the moscow region, well , at that time, expensive, well, like a concert-level instrument, from time to time it

needed, let’s say, maintenance and some minor repairs there for wear and tear. there are frets, let’s say, there are neck bends, well, those, that is, that for any, any instrument or object that is needed in the work, we had to go to moscow, there on relays back in the moscow region to get to this particular master who made this bololayka, i asked, listen, what are you saying, is no one doing this here, well here, is no one doing this in minsk, no one, no one.

there is some kind of reality , i began to be interested in this topic, well , i began to look, well, what kind of books and magazines were i able to find, i read everything there, revised it, then i found something like this, i found an article by kufer in the magazine science and life, there was such an aster , word

obolaika, i read that article and realized that i needed to meet this person, the most... was an uh aircraft designer , was involved in helicopter affairs, these mm helicopters like uh, black shark, these are the ones he received, in fact, a bonus, probably there was a bonus for the team or something, i don’t know, but he had something to do with it, then there was a highly educated person, and somehow he also had such a hobby, and step by step he also came to this, but he approached it as a researcher. it’s just that his friends and acquaintances knew that he loved music, sometimes, as a hobby, he repaired musical instruments, someone once brought him an ancient musical instrument, one of the first, masters, let's say, one of the first legendary masters of allaika, he disassembled this instrument like a professional designer, sketched everything, made sketches,

studied what thicknesses, and thus about 15- 20. instruments from different masters , he gave each one such a description, he was also working with musicians at the same time, but he asked their feedback, what was good about this instrument, what was bad about it, what could be completed here, what feedback did he have, thus, he created such a collective image, called it like muscovite, it was very highly appreciated and, well, somehow thanks to all this, this article appeared in the journal science and life, the word oblalike. i decided to meet him, i found out his phone number there, called him, went there to moscow, we sat there for a couple of days, he told me how, uh, as a souvenir, he finally gave me his drawings, with his autograph, wished me good luck in this matter , from then on i had a goal, so

to speak, well, like the light, the end of the tunnel, where i i have to go out, i began to collect, go... to familiar craftsmen , then someone else to do violin work, look for rope and, uh , as i made this first instrument, i already had experience uh of repairing, the real first step was when i made my first instrument, my first goal was simply to make it according to these drawings, but of course , there were many difficulties along the way, i made my first one - a bololaika, and specifically a balalaika, i will accept. in 1992, that’s what it says on the tag inside it, since then somewhere through my hands passed about uh... uh two hundred, maybe for someone over 30 years old, and that’s not much, but for me it’s a pretty big number.

when i made my first husky and after the master appreciated it, he said that it was excellent for the first time, i realized that i needed to somehow raise my level, and i began to search, go to other masters, try different forms, every time i redid the uniform there, changed the shape of the body, changed the number of rivets, and this continued for about 9-10 years, until i came back to... that first the drawing that i took from this moscow aster, now it takes me a month to, let’s say, make one prima, well,

about a month, as we tried and so on to speed it up, it doesn’t work, especially fine finishing, we need to give time there for good listening, a lot of thin layers, and so on, a thick layer is not allowed. will immediately crack, so high-quality finishing takes a lot of time, there is practically no way to speed it up, since the designs of, say, the same kolulalaika are somewhat different, there are seeds, there are six, there are nine, there are some with veins without veins, that is, well , i’ll roughly say that on my instruments it’s about a hundred parts to get a high-quality one. the instrument i use is either canadian red cedar or high-quality resonant spruce; the type of spruce i have recently been able to buy

is caucasian spruce, according to some sources it is considered one of the best, which can be, the body can be made from different materials, we also tried it, different timbre, different sound, simpler and more technologically advanced total. work with maple, that is, where the body is made of maple, it is well processed, a very technologically advanced material, quite beautiful, quite, quite sonorous, exotic species, rosewood, poduk, zebran, they can give a brighter, stronger sound, but the work with them it is much more difficult, well, for a number of technological reasons, any artist or creator there should be free, free, they should not be forced to do so. these circumstances, that is, he must, well , he needs some kind of space, flight, when you already move on and think, what to do, so that it has such a sound, so that

there are a lot of highs, and there are a lot of lows, it’s very difficult to achieve such a sound balance on a small instrument so that the low frequencies sound strong and the high frequencies sound, this is very very difficult to do, but in a guitar it’s somewhat easier. the body is larger, very often a lot was done by eye, there was nothing else, sometimes on instruments of that time, let’s say, before 2000, there were acoustic failures, that is, when you start pressing the fret on each fret, it sounds quite long on all of them, sounds on the same fret in short, that is, the sound quickly fades , it was as if it was not acceptable, by and large it was a defect, that is, with some modification it was possible to correct it somewhat, but when they began to use higher quality wood,

it was more accurate to measure these thicknesses of the entire instrument , they actually left, from a good tree it may... it won’t work and it won’t just turn out to be outstanding or excellent there, it may turn out to be a good instrument, but in extreme cases, a normal one looked somewhere on the internet and it exists in russia alololaika museum, well, i checked that, why don’t we do it? we have everything , we can make all these museum exhibits, there the first tools from a pumpkin, put there what we have, what is under repair , what is made new, that is, in principle, that’s all there is a show of all this technology. how it’s done, what kind of wood, that is, in principle it turns out to be quite interesting, someday , well, when perhaps we have such an area, we will try to do it, it would be nice for this

museum to be combined with... a workshop, so that it’s not just people who come to the museum, but also come and see how it’s done, and even better, so that if someone really wants to, they try it themselves, but let’s say something, something simple, we’re in a workshop for the manufacture and... repair of russian mining tools, as the sign near the door says, on the other side , the workshop of ruslan makarevich, although my workshop, of course, i have assistants and associates who help me, everything necessary for our equipment processes, this is a precision saw,

a grinding machine, harp machines , several milling cutters, air purifiers, and much more, that is, everything that is needed for the process of making high-quality folk instruments, my colleague by education, a radio engineer, was originally known as an electric guitar maker, that is, most of he devoted approximately 40-45 years of his life to electric guitars, i once studied... i graduated from college and then graduated from graduate school, we were taught that in any research work we must first do a literary search, find a review analogues, prototypes, that is, the initial stage is to find what is in the world on this matter, classify everything, choose then move on, then when you choose a specific model, you want to do it, you choose a specific tool , what to make from...

the person who introduced the bylaika into culture from a folk instrument, that is, gave it some shapes, sizes, he naturally looked at what these folk instruments were made of among the people, well among the people they were from what was at hand, he started analyze what other musical instruments known by that time were made of, for example, there were violins, for example, guitars, by this time there was already a rich school on these instruments and, uh, very logically

, he suggested that if we take, well, wood for violins and wood for guitars, then perhaps we will get a more interesting sound, so he tried to make these, take such materials, this gave him the opportunity to get exceptional instruments, well, if you take such folk instruments as the balalaika and domra, well, if we talk about lilac, then there are approximately 100. in italy, which needs to be made depending on the models, sometimes more. so, the process of directly assembling, fitting, inlaying and finishing to the desired level takes about a month, but in order to prepare the tree for this production, much more time is needed, that is, between the time

when the tree. cut down, let it be as it should be, here it is cut down, it takes at least about 3-4 years, then you can work with it further, dry wood - this is understandable, but it must come out, be aged, well , probably like cognac, the best wood is considered to be about 10 years or more, how long the overall process takes, but you can calculate it yourself, that is, if we are talking about a high-quality instrument, take seasoned wood, then... well, about 8-10 years, in fact , my hobby before this workshop appeared was precisely the manufacture of musical instruments, well, i went to work, worked as an engineer, worked in college teacher, well until then it was a hobby, how did this workshop appear, it has ceased to be a hobby, it has become my business, all the best that i had in one way or another is connected with this - i

cannot regret it, so i thank someone or something that set me on this path. the president of belarus held a meeting via videoconference with members of the main

crew of expedition 21 visiting the international space station, oleg navitsky and marina vasilevskaya. only 2 days remain until the iconic event. for the first time in the history of a sovereign country, a belarusian citizen will go into space on board. box-25 under the command of oleg novitsky , our marina vasilevskaya is part of the main crew. they will spend 12 days on board the station. alexander lukashenko inquired about the health and readiness of the crew. according to the astronauts, they have a very fighting spirit, including thanks to the colossal support that they feel throughout the preparation for the flight. after returning from space, the president is waiting for the crew in belarus. the soyuz ms-25 spacecraft is planned. council of astronauts on the iss on thursday. the start is scheduled for 16:21 minutes. docking should occur in 3 hours. the astronauts will return back to earth on april 2. growth in household incomes and reduction in inflation in

the belarusian economy continue to be dominated by positive trends. the results for the first 2 months of the year were announced in the relevant ministry. the drivers of gdp growth were industry, trade and agriculture. the transport industry is actively recovering. last year there was a minus, but now there is an increase of more than 4%, and both cargo and passenger turnover, as for the average salary, in january it amounted to almost 2,000 rubles. labor pensions in real terms increased by 9% over 2 months. most of the indicators in the forecast trajectory and the main indicators even exceed the forecast trajectory, which creates a certain reserve for the first quarter and the following month. in order to maintain high rates of economic growth and, most importantly, maintain the rate of income of the population, ensure employment, well, in key sectors also, so to speak, not

fall, on the contrary, add. belarus’ gdp increased by 4% over 2 months compared to the same level in 2023, the rate is higher than last year’s and forecast parameters. peat in belarus. the existing volumes of production and processing are sufficient for use in the economy for the next 100 years, beltopgaz stated this, the industry is well developed in our country, the republic ranks first in the world in the extraction of this raw material and the production of briquettes, about 2 million tons are mined in belarus annually peat, more than half of which is used for fuel, which makes it possible to replace 450 million cubic meters of natural gas annually. 80 years ago, on march 19, 1944, the wehrmacht covered itself with old men, women and children from the advancing units of the red army. 50 thousand people were

driven into a swamp and were in the open air without food, water or warm clothes. in addition, the prisoners were infected with typhus, the third reich used bacteriological weapons in the poletsk swamps to stop the soviet advance. back in 1946, at the international tribunal in nuremberg, the creation of death camps was called the most terrible crimes of the wehrmacht during the second world war, but furor’s subjects did not receive wide-eyed atrocities.