now, at the machine, a group of workers were discussing the technique of grinding it; viktor osipovich safronovdirector of the plant under construction, who had extensive experience in the optical industry of the ussr, intervened in the process. he didn’t just begin to explain how best to process glass, polish optics, and build a system for positioning glass, but he himself went to the machine. in practice, it was necessary to test what had recently been at the level of a hypothesis. factory was preparing to release its first product. in those early years, it was truly craftsmanship, when a unique one was made on the simplest machines. there were no contact devices, they were adjusted manually to the device, to the ganeometer, and then gradually. gradually we began to make a contact device. the workers of the then still under construction enterprise often demonstrated miracles of ingenuity. once upon a time, the germans came here as quality control engineers. and so he showed the device that i had come up with, he looked and said: we don’t have this, he says, it turns out that the quality, the