#sitnikov

[elenatria]

The beautiful tragedy of Sitnikov's eyes.

[lifewithaview]

Jamie Sives as Sitnikov in Chernobyl (2019) 1:23:45

Ep1

While nuclear physics professor Valery Legasov hides evidence of what really happened, expecting to die soon and as scapegoat for the world's worst nuclear disaster that contributed to the demise of Soviet Union, he recalls the 1986 Chernobyl power plant disaster. The under-qualified night shift in the Ukrainian reactor control room is incapable of grasping, let alone controlling the nuclear reactions getting completely out of control. No timely warnings are given until the uranium rods escalate an unstoppable meltdown. Party officials pigheadedly keep pretending it's just a building fire, so time is wasted and people are contaminated before the horrible radiation symptoms became impossible to ignore and Moscow has to learn the truth. The KGB vice director is assigned by Gorbachov to handle it with outspoken expert Legasov as imposed counsel, whim he would prefer to dispose of but finds crucially, albeit inconveniently, knowledgeable. The rest of the world is kept ignorant, but alarming readings start raising questions.

*[first lines] Valery Legasov: What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: "Who is to blame?"

[avvakum]

1962-VI-3 Водил Нину к Плавинскому и Фонвизину #sitnikov #ситников https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUcp-erNqk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thunderstruck9]

Alexander Sitnikov (Russian, 1945), Temptation, 1976. Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 in.

[blocpulp]

Frank Herbert - Dune (Russian Federation, 1992)

artist: Sergey Sitnikov

[random-brushstrokes]

Vasily Sitnikov - Blue cupolas (1985)

[4eternal-life]

ALEXANDER SITNIKOV  (Russian, b. 1945)

Metamorphosis

oil on canvas,  140 x 140 cm. (55 1/8 x 55 1/8 in.)

© Shapiro Auctions

[art-collecteur]

Vasily Sitnikov

Nude, 1977

[f1-birb]

https://www.threads.net/@fray_f1/post/C_s8dLQtSSI/

They were so little 🥹🥹🥹 tiny max even tinyer (?) lando 🩷🩷🩷

the teeniest, tiniest

the fact that Lando on the top step is barely taller than Max and still smaller than Nikita Sitnikov (P2)

and because I feel like it, another teeny tiny Lando to show the size difference between him and who he was competing against in karting

(for context, Mazepin is March 99 and Lorandi is Sept 98 so 8 months and 14 months older respectively)

and here is Lando emulating Nando (with what is my personal fave celly move)

[felinefractious]

🐱 Maine Coon

📸 Dmytro Sitnikov [Alismarry]

🎨 Black Silver Ticked Tabby

[nudesnoises]

Boris Sitnikov

[sportswear-chav-smokers-colors]

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#464-03

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[sovietpostcards]

Information transforming device for connecting punch card calculating machines and telegraph communication channels. InterOrgTechnics-66 exhibition, the Soviet pavilion. Photo by N. Sitnikov, B. Trepetov (Moscow, September 9, 1966).

[avvakum]

Василий Ситников - из серии рисунков из психиатрической клиники / Vasily Sitnikov - from a series of drawings from a psychiatric hospital #sitnikov #ситников https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKgL1SvnMT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[teeth--thief]

Do we have the opinion of anyone in the control room on Dyatlov? Leonid, Akimov, etc.? I watched the interview with Stolyarchuk. Very good. Also, I learned color text on this web site… though I’m unsure as to why there is no yellow or blue? :(

- Rodka

@atomshchik I'm almost caught up with all your asks, that calls for a celebration! (proceeds to disappear for a few days)

I guess there's no yellow because it'd be too low contrast? Who knows... But I think you can make fancy gradient text with any color you want! That's probably just for posts, not asks... I'm blissfully unaware of how, though, as I'm a mobile phone user (I don't have a working PC or a laptop... matter of fact, I need a new phone, too).

Stolyarchuk seems like good vibes overall, doesn't he? He's always so calm and collected. He's just chillin. We love an unproblematic guy.

I've gotta be honest, I have gaps in my memory when it comes to whether or not Stolyarchuk ever explicitly said much about Dyatlov in any interviews. I need to rewatch both the one with KishkiNa and the panel with Steinberg and the rest... By that, I'm assuming he never said anything ground breaking but I might be wrong. Either way: I'm putting a pin in that, I'll come back to this matter.

Not to even mention the SIUT - Igor Kirschenbaum. We know so little about him overall that his thoughts on anyone are... yeah, we just don't know. I'm pretty sure he only ever did one interview, on the phone, at that - with KishkiNa (starts at 15:52) - and I'm not sure if you can even call that an interview...

About Akimov and Toptunov... There are of course their testimonies, as they were interrogated while in the hospital in Moscow, but those never made it out of the prosecutor's office. At this point, no one knows if they ever will get out to the public or even if they're still there at all. They couldn't have been that - if at all - incriminating for Dyatlov, though, as they weren't brought up during the trial in reference to him forcing them to do anything, being verbally abusive etc etc.

And, of course, when mentioning Toptunov, Sasha Korol comes up once again: we know for a fact he was absolutely terrified of Dyatlov. So much so that he had some real... unkind things to say about him in his interview with Kupnyi (translation taken from here from the one and only @/toptunovleonid on Instagram):

(...) And Lenya opened the door, he entered. He rang [the doorbell] first, then opened the door. I was reading a magazine about science and he said "Let's go, in my work time there will be a test. Dyatlov will be in command..." and I... Kupnyi: You didn't get along with him [Dyatlov]... Yeah... he was a petty tyrant. Kupnyi: Did you have to deal with him? Thank God, I didn't have to deal with him! Only once but it doesn't matter. We went to the reactor shop. Lenya arrived earlier - immediately after graduation arrived at the power plant. I went there after a month. By this time Dyatlov was promoted, and the chief of the [reactor] shop became Sitnikov. Sitnikov hired me. That's how we didn't cross paths with Dyatlov, Thank God. If it wasn't Dyatlov, there wouldn't be accidents. The whole story would be different... Before he worked at Chernobyl, he tested nuclear reactors of submarines. And then there was this system, like a party nomenclature. (Dyatlov was) "unsinkable", as they say. They chided him, they chided him and he came [to Chernobyl] to control an even worse reactor. On submarines, reactors are well controlled due to the "enrichment" dynamics of control. And our "enrichment" was small... Well, in short, he covered (himself; probably he was hiding after the accident on the submarine). He was obsessed with proving that RBMK were secure. A program was written if one block stops working and gets disconnected to the others, will water still be pumped. It's different than... where there is a cooling system, natural cooling. In RBMK there are 1648 channels controlled manually? And if the connection is lost, the diesel generator turns on but it takes 3 minutes so it can start working. For this time, cooling is needed. He tried to prove it. He did everything as he should... but he proved the opposite. He proved the opposite. The program was... Kupnyi: Did he initiate the program? Yes. He wanted to be promoted. He wanted to prove this immediately. No one has read the program he wrote. Everyone said so. Everyone knew there would be a test of the generator runout. Nobody had seen (the program). They saw it when he brought it himself, and there was strikethrough text, corrections. That's the whole deal. To get ready for the program, they had to see, to discuss it, to study it. I mean he just brought it and (said) "Here. Do this.". Nobody could understand, that's why he commanded. Kupnyi: Did this experiment have to be performed in the evening but they postponed it to the night shift? Yes. Kupnyi: Logically, the night shift wasn't familiar with the test that had to be performed in the evening. The evening shift got ready for... (the test). Not the evening, nor any other shift read the program (that Dyatlov wrote).

Only once but it didn't matter, you say? Define doesn't matter, please. If I had to guess, someone got scolded real bad for something... Anyhow, he never mentioned what Toptunov thought about Dyatlov - I'm assuming if Lyonya had been that terrified of him, too, then Korol would have mentioned so, you know, to boost his case... But he said nothing so I suppose we may never know...

[rknchan]

shoutout to andrei semyonovich lebezyatnikov being one of the most underappreciated ruslit characters like... almost no one ever talks about him, neither critics or literature teachers (in our school tho we did discuss lebezyatnikov as "another counterpart of raskolnikov along with luzhin and svidrigailov" but as far as i know he's seldom mentioned and even considered as raskolnikov's counterpart). but he does play a part in the plot??? and is a reflection of social movements and ideas of his time???? to begin with, there was a common trope in russian literature: a character who tries to be "progressive and woke" but is actually not, who is shown as foolish, fake and inconsistent in their beliefs, who criticizes the "rotten society" but actually is a part of it; is often a parody of the protagonist - who is indeed progressive and smart and revolutionary and misunderstood and so on (bonus points if they admire the protagonist and try to copy him) we can see this trope in griboyedov's play "woe from wit" (repetilov - a parody on chatsky), turgenev's novel "fathers and sons" (sitnikov and kukshina - wannabe nihilists as opposed to bazarov though kukshina is a literal queen she slays), and dostoyevsky's later works - "the idiot" (hippolite terentyev's gang) and "demons" (verkhovensky's circle); maybe grushnitsky from "a hero of our time" can be counted too, he fits all the traits but he's obsessed with byronism not politics and is treated more seriously

when we first see lebezyatnikov in p5c1, it's exactly how he is presented like: silly and pathetic, with unattractive features, described with usage of very strong and borderline offensive language (how do you like "half-animate abortion"?), dramatic and self-righteous to the point he looks ridiculous... his surname comes from russian word "лебезить" [lebezit] - "to fawn on somebody" sometimes he has a point but some his takes are harmful (beating a woman with tuberculosis because "he seeks equality in fighting !!!" defending prostitution and saying it is empowerment and protest !!! while not knowing how sonya is suffering); even though he has sincere good intentions his ideology, like that of many 1860s-70s russian nihilists, is based on the ideas of nikolai chernyshevsky and his novel "what is to be done" (and other utopian socialists) but inverted and satirized the part where he defends freedom in marriage and "deceptions" ("Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband...if I were to marry, ...I should present my wife with a lover if she had not found one for herself.") is a reference to "what is to be done" and chernyshevsky's own personal life - in witbd the main heroine tells her husband that she is in love with another man, and her husband pretends to commit suicide so that she would be formally a widow and able to marry her lover the "it’s an insult to a woman for a man to kiss her hand" line is also a direct reference to witbd (sorry for the spoilers btw witbd is quite an underaprecciated book if i ever reread it i ought to make a post about it) - chernyshevsky himself had a complicated relationship with his wife; he worshipped her, always put her interests above himself and let her make all the decisions in their family life, while she saw him only as a friend and a chance to escape from her abusive family; chernyshevsky said that if she liked someone else he'd forgive her and suffer in silence but would always forgive her if she came back SORRY what is to be DONE WITH CHERNYSHEVSKY LET'S GET BACK TO THE POINT. YEAH LEBEZYATNIKOV his description is summed up in this line: "one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely" but there's one important thing. he takes a step ahead. he protects sonya marmeladova!! and accuses luzhin of slandering her, explaining what actually happened and giving proof of luzhin's vileness!! (and later on he also helps sonya and rodion find katerina ivanovna mad and near death from her illness...) even katerina ivanovna says he was sent by god - for saving sonya's honour. the one who desires to fight for equality but doesn't know how and only makes a fool of himself in other characters' and author's eyes - he actually protects the weak, silent and oppressed. no parody sidekick has ever had such a character development, no trying-to-be-progressive character before had a chance to step out of their stereotype and do something good for another person or for the society this scene makes me so happy, not only because i love seeing someone protecting my beloved sonya but it also has a deeply personal meaning to me

i was also concerned about equality, freedom and perfecting the society and all such things, and ofc had confrontations with others regarding my opinions like all of us probably do, but in the end i always looked stupid, uneducated and worthless as i could never shut up, cried when i lost an argument and did nothing but whine about how things are unfair but never knew what to do to change it and so i thought: i don't deserve to call myself a profeminist and a liberal, i am not good enough i wanted to relate to strong-willed, enlightened, revolutionary characters like chatsky and rakhmetov, but i knew that i was a repetilov, a sitnikov, a lebezyatnikov - an useless caricature who is a shame to their ideology

and when i first read the scene where lebezyatnikov protects sonya, it made me genuinely happy to see how somebody who was viewed as an "useless and fake progressist" could also be a help to somebody and become a better person... it made me feel like i'm not worthless too, like im capable of such a character development and maybe even change someone's life for the better too.... ;;;;;

sorry it ended up too long and too personal and whiny in the end ... :c anyway i hope you did enjoy reading this or find something interesting

have a nice day!! <3