Six steps toward the Dancing Cloud

By Troitski Igor

The book about the six steps made by me to be in my house on Dancing Cloud Ave. The first step is a theoretical laboratory in which scientists solved the problems of anti-missile defense, and simultaneously taught Kamchatka's bears to sing. The second stair rung is the story of how a university student who was fond of playing cards became a submarine officer. Instead of playing cards, the officer began to play nuclear explosions with the idea of an unauthorized launch of a ballistic missile. The third step is the story of how the son of parents, who were trying to steal the secrets of the American atomic bomb, was informing foreign intelligence about the development of Russian laser weapons. The fourth step is a romantic story about how three girls with the same name Natasha turned a boy into a man. The fifth step is about one of the “leaders of the Moscow Chechen mafia”, a favorite of the first president of Russia. The sixth stair rung is one page of the life of friends of physicists with an ageless cutie.

Each of the six steps is so unexpected and random that sometimes I do not believe in its existence. But irrefutable facts and, of course, the final destination of my fantastic journey convince me of their reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Accent Graphics Communications
• Release date: Jun 24, 2023

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Igor Troitski is a doctor of technical sciences, a professor and an author of more than 200 scientific papers, books, monographs and tutorials. His contributions are focused on the following topics: laser location, holography, tomography, adaptive optics and creation of optical laser images inside transparent material. He has 79 Soviet inventor’s certificates and 29 US patents.

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The book about the six steps made by me to be in my house on Dancing Cloud Ave. The first step is a theoretical laboratory in which scientists solved the problems of anti-missile defense, and simultaneously taught Kamchatka's bears to sing. The second stair rung is the story of how a university student who was fond of playing cards became a submarine officer. Instead of playing cards, the officer began to play nuclear explosions with the idea of an unauthorized launch of a ballistic missile. The third step is the story of how the son of parents, who were trying to steal the secrets of the American atomic bomb, was informing foreign intelligence about the development of Russian laser weapons. The fourth step is a romantic story about how three girls with the same name Natasha turned a boy into a man. The fifth step is about one of the leaders of the Moscow Chechen mafia, a favorite of the first president of Russia. The sixth stair rung is one page of the life of friends of physicists with an ageless cutie.

Each of the six steps is so unexpected and random that sometimes I do not believe in its existence. But irrefutable facts and, of course, the final destination of my fantastic journey convince me of their reality.

Contents

Top secret theoretical laboratory on missile defense

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Consequences of visiting the First US Industrial Products Exhibition in Moscow. Former firm of the son of the head of the State Security Committee. A simple temptress or a foreign spy? How two young scientists were teaching the Kamchatka bears to sing. The problem of selection of warheads of a ballistic missile among many decoys. The general designer of a missile attack warning system and a space surveillance system.

From a student of the university playing cards to a submarine officer playing nuclear explosions

How not to get into secret informants. Punishment for being lucky while playing cards. Meeting in the mountains. Tasting of spirits on a submarine. Devilish, sinful heroism. The idea of an unauthorized launch of a ballistic missile and the difference between the biblical and real Apocalypse. Retirement.

They tried to steal the secrets of the atomic bomb, and their son informed foreign intelligence about the development of Russian laser weapons

Trip to the military training ground. The fall of a helicopter under the impact of powerful laser radiation. The diner in a roadside restaurant with the chief of the eighth main directorate of the Ministry of Defense Industry, son of state security officers. Influence of the fact of the theft of documents of the Atomic Project on the subsequent authorship of Soviet scientific papers. Dismissal from the Ministry of Defense Industry for disclosing state secrets.

The path from boy to man

Three girls with the same name – Natasha. Your Majesty the Queen of the country Igrael, Natasha. The Girl Sang in the Church Choir. What did my girls with the same name Natasha give me?

Favorite of the first Russian President and one of the leaders of the Moscow Chechen Mafia

The Rest House Ruza, owned by the All-Union Theater Society. You became a communist, but you have not ceased to be a Jew. How Kaufman took a unique photo of the first Russian president. What happened to Kaufman? One of the leaders of the Chechen mafia.

Life with the ageless cutie

Caricature portraits of my student friends. A toast to the Science to the ageless cutie. Unclear perspectives of science and scientists. A naughty story. How employees of the Academy of Sciences traveled around Yugoslavia

Top secret theoretical laboratory

on missile defense

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

In 1959, I entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - State Research University (PhysTech). According to the established tradition, all those who entered for two weeks were engaged in the improvement of the territory of the institute and campus.

My team was working so well that we were noticed by a correspondent of the institute newspaper For Science. In the photo he took, I (center, third from left), as a carpenter with a year of experience, share my professional experience with new friends, and they listen with bated breath to my advice.

I entered Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology accidentally. It was known that its entrance exams are very difficult, but since they were held earlier than other universities, I decided to try it purely for practice. Therefore, I received more or less complete information about the University itself after I became its student.

PhysTech as State Research University was established only in 1951 on the initiative of well-known Soviet scientists with the aim of training highly qualified specialists in the field of theoretical and experimental physics, applied mathematics and related disciplines necessary for work in academic institutions and defense enterprises of the domestic industry.

The main principles and rules for solving the task of training highly qualified specialists set for the University are solved and implemented in the following way.

- After successfully passing the exams, the applicant must pass an interview with the leading professors of the University, during which his abilities and opportunities to work in a particular field of science or technology are revealed.

- Education at the University continues for six years. During the first three years of study, students receive an extensive fundamental mathematical education and must also study theoretical and experimental physics.

- During the past three years, students spend most of their study time in the laboratories of the Academy of Sciences