viktor osipovich safronov, director of the plant under construction, intervened in the process. who had experience in the optical industry of the ussr. he didn’t just begin to explain how best to process glass, grind optics, and build a glass arrangement system, but he himself stood up to the machine. in practice, it was necessary to test what had recently been at the level of a hypothesis; the plant was preparing to produce its first products. in in those first years, it really was craftsmanship, when unique products were made on the simplest machines, the simplest machines, there were no contact devices, they were manually adjusted to fit the device, to the gonometer, and then gradually. gradually we began to produce contact devices. workers at 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 came up with, so he looked and said: “we have this is not the case, he says, it turns out that the quality, the quality of the parts, is very high, well,