, because the peet institute arranged lectures for schoolchildren, that is, we also did not miss it, we weren't into girls, we were into science, i was finishing graduate school, then i told my supervisor, in general , the methods of astronomy do not really interest me, i would really like to work at... at a professional observatory, that is, not to interpret some astronomical discoveries, but to make discoveries myself, and he recommended me to the far east, because there, the director of the observatory was a man to whom he was an opponent in the dissertation, so now come on help my student, golubev, and... i worked at the observatory for 10 years , there i really like i liked it, so, and then i came here, because you can’t live in taiga forever, we don’t train astronomers in belarus, because the republic is small, only two republics in the soviet union, in my opinion, kyrgyzstan and belarus did not have observatories, these are ours. .. the baltic neighbors have astronomical and radio astronomical observatories, but we do not, so everything is at an amateur level, but i would say