My hero named A.  walked for a border on the most chic passenger liners, «white» steamships while did not lose a visa. But, if you remember, exactly on «black, a not on «white» steamships really seamen floated in the days of Soviet  Union, as I wrote, one’s own way high, moral people. Such man was and seaman A. Then it further and also, why there was not a complete crew on the steamship of “Admiral Nakhimov”, and speech will go on next.

I will remind, to my heroine its ship chief A. settled in Yalta a discharge ashore. Ordinary practice – Odessa townsfolk did not have time to abandon Odessa, as already rang home. My heroine is was single, childless woman, 28 years. For it, except for his mother, nothing sainted was in life. There was neither loved man, nor children.  Here it left to ring mother, home to Odessa from the Yalta long-distance telephony. During a talk it knew with mother, that in night of transition of ship to en-route Odessa is Yalta, them, with mother joint apartment, robbed. I do not remember details, but a mother was living. And all of imported, valuable goods, that daughter brought from oversea trips, robbers took away with itself. A mother in a grave condition asked daughter to give up everything and arrive. My heroine speaks to the ship chief A., that he released it. A woman going on a long-distance bus, as it was usually done, to reach to mother, to Odessa. My heroine in despair said And. – most valuable, that for me it is a mother, apartment and property which was already stolen. A visa for me is not present, and, possibly, it will never be. And here disfigured for 100 rubles, in a hope to get a visa, I will not be.  On the rules of ship order ship chief A. must was appeal to the captain after permission. But And. understood fine, that a captain, as Winston Churchill, giving orders to the ship in a reclining position, in the preceding infarction state and nescient nobody of crew, is persons interested to toady, would never release this woman from a ship. Chief mate, executing the second trip, during a stand, possibly, conducted a deep acquaintance with personnel which never changes…to the cabin of chief mate.  My hero A., as a decent man, made a decision on the fear and risk. He released the inferior home to mother. Afterwards, in private, in a friendly way, I met with A. We discussed this incident.  In the moment of ship-wreck my heroine, on an official order, would be in the lowermost compartments of ship. And the most important-she cannot swim. Shorter, A. rescued life this twenty eight-year woman. Commission of inquiry, investigating reasons of destruction of motor ship of «Admiral Nakhimov» carefully considered this case. Nothing was a woman. Ship’s chief A. was seriously punished. It should be said, what only on the exposures of news-reel Geydar Aliev looked a mild and intellectual man. He was eastern oriental crude and hard man, former head of the Azerbaijan special services, punished all, who was straight or indirectly m/v “Admiral Nakhimov” participating to death pitilessly. It is talked, what Aliev, after the failure of the reconnaissance activity, had time to sit, how hardly not on a chain, in Turkish zindane (jail). In fact Soviet Azerbaijan and Turkey- is a member of NATO – geographically are alongside, and languages…