duina on the adriatic, on one of the bastions of this castle, a spear was fixed, by which the sentryetermined the weather, but the most interesting thing is that the vegetation around this spear was much richer than aquarius . the whole thing turned out to be ions. chizhevsky came to the conclusion that negatively charged ions have a beneficial effect on all living things and vice versa, a positive effect is detrimental. to confirm or disprove it, experiments on laboratory equipment are needed. there was nothing of this chizhevsky. the first years after the great october revolution went by, many of the scientists hid in the corners and went out into the street only to buy provisions or get a ration of devastation, hunger, shortcomings for the civil war, as if temporarily suspended the work of scientific thought, desperate to meet someone with sympathy your ideas and see the dire state of the moscow laboratories. i firmly decided that i would have to carry out these studies in my kaluga laboratory. at least it would cost my family and me a lot of effort and would limit our food budget