Editor-in-chief Anatoly Aleksandrovich Wasserman showed up at the editorial office of his own magazine immediately upon his arrival from Odessa, rushing from the station on his birthday for a quick photo shoot. Despite a slight fatigue, he was extremely cheerful in spirit: he told stories, joked a lot, read another book about weapons and at the same time managed to give weighty administrative orders. When the editor-in-chief was distracted for half a minute, in the 27th, secret pocket of his vest, the employees of the publication accidentally discovered ... oil. Now a tender is being held for the development of this field, and its exact location is strictly classified. Well, we open access to the contents of the remaining pockets on the pages of Idea X.

History from Wasserman

Once I arrived at the SD (Severodonetsk - ed.) At the invitation of NPO Impulse, where I studied and fixed errors in software for computers. So, I come and check in at the Tsentralnaya Hotel. I go down to the restaurant, start a conversation with the waitress about studying the menu. When she takes the order away, an enthusiastic shout is heard from the kitchen: "Pleischner has arrived!"

Vest

I've been wearing multi-pocket vests since 1986. Initially, I sewed with my own hands. Then - when hunting vests began to appear on sale - he began to buy and sew on the missing pockets for them. Finally, in the last five years I have been ordering vests from a workwear sewing company. True, they only accept wholesale orders - at least 20 vests. For the years remaining to me, in which I can still carry such a load, I can hardly wear more than a dozen. Therefore, the surplus sold. And when he decided to strengthen some of the fasteners and therefore made a new order, at the same time he sold out the unworn remnant of the previous one.

There is a mention of 28 pockets in my waistcoat on the internet. This is the result of my typo when answering someone's question. In fact, the latest and penultimate models have 26 pockets. In the previous ones, even less.

Closely acquainted with the contents of Anatoly Wasserman's pockets and even photographed them for his blog. There were 103 items in total, and this is only in the pockets of the vest!
Onotole. Front view:

Rear view, right, left:

In total, he has 26 pockets on his vest, says Onotole. The rumor about 28 pockets went after he once sealed himself in his LJ.

Rear upper

1. The book "Federalist"

2. Cassette recorder

3. Inflatable neck pillow

Rear lower:

4. Folding automatic umbrella

Upper floor: right

5. Spool with thin line

6. Plastic box with large sewing needles

7. Crochet hook with cap

8. Hemostatic pencil

Middle floor: right half-hidden (fastener - under the arm)

9. Internal passport of a citizen of Ukraine

10. Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine

11. A small collection of banknotes (mostly out of circulation)

Middle floor: second layer: rightmost

12. Digital camera

13. Rigid cardboard cover for ID cards

14. Digital pass to the building of the editorial office of the "Idea X" magazine

Middle floor: second layer: right closest to the clasp

15. Keys from the Odessa apartment

16. Flashlight with nine LEDs

Middle floor: second layer: right vertical at the fastener

17. Ballpoint pens

18. Markers

19. Collet pencil with 2.2 mm lead

20. Combined knife sharpener

21. Text marker

Middle floor: front layer: right extreme

22. Roulette with soft tape

23. Monocular 2.5 * 20

24. Miniature siren whistle

25. Miniature screwdriver with replaceable tips

Middle Floor: Front Layer: Right Closest To Closure

26. Safety pins of different sizes

27. Disinfectant pencil

28. Nail clippers

29. Collection of cardboard tickets for the Moscow metro with overprints in honor of various holidays and anniversaries

30. Miniature digital lock

Middle floor: front layer: right vertical at the fastener

31. Collet with eraser for erasing pencil writing

32. Ballpoint pens, markers

33. Ballpoint pen with whitewash for painting over inscriptions

34. Box of leads 2,2 mm

35. Spare blades for a paper knife

Lower floor: back layer: right

36. Atlases: the world, the Moscow region, Moscow (with each house), route taxis Odessa

37. Box for business cards

38. Wallet with old records

Lower floor: second layer: right

39. Solar powered calculator

40. Personal and business telephone directories

41. List of books I have

Lower floor: front layer: right closest to the fastener

42. Business cards not yet included in the phone and directory

43. Records of addresses and telephone numbers (on metro tickets), not yet entered in the telephone and directory

44. Several packages of germicidal plasters

45. Several packs of spare 0.5 mm leads

46. ​​Gas lighter

47. Glue stick

48. Pepper aerosol can

Lower floor: front layer: rightmost

49. Bank cards

50. Discount cards

51. Miniature (80mm) Bootable Optical Discs with Multiple Versions operating system Linux

52. A set of tweezers with different shapes of sponges

Upper floor: left

53. Monocular 5 * 25

54. Mechanical bottle stopper with opener on the handle

55. Box of Licorice Lozenges

56. 4GB Flash Drive

57. Flash drive with a capacity of 8 G bytes

Middle floor: front layer: left extreme

58. Miniature sponge for cleaning shoes

59. Cigar guillotine

60. Plastic pill box

61. Two subminiature folding knives

62. Miniature lamp with LED

63. Flash drive with a capacity of 1 G bytes

64. Flash drive with a capacity of 32 G bytes

Middle floor: second layer: left vertical at the fastener

65. Mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm leads in different colors.

66. Ballpoint pens

67. Screwdriver with interchangeable nozzles and ratchet mechanism

Middle floor: left half-hidden (fastener - under the arm)

68. Internal passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of Ukrainian citizenship

69. Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine

70. Foreign passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint on the citizenship of Ukraine

71. Employment book

72. A skein of rubber rings for tightening papers

Middle floor: second layer: leftmost

73. Combined magnifier: 4x with 10x insert

74. Magnifier combined: 10x 3-element and 20x 5-element

75. Hooks for hanging bags under countertops

Middle floor: second layer: left closest to the clasp

76. Folding knife

77. Spare cassette for the recorder

Middle floor: front layer: left closest to the buckle

78. Pack of cardboard tickets for the Moscow metro (old model)

79. Combined magnifier: 2x with 8x insert

80. Cassette with small sewing needles

81.6 dice

Middle floor: front layer: left vertical at the fastener

82. Ballpoint pens

83. Markers

84. Knife with a retractable sectional blade for cutting paper

85. Set of nail files

86. Metal comb

87. Sliding telescope 8 * 10

Lower floor: back layer: left

88. Several old records in plastic packaging

89. Plastic pencil case with files

90.10x microscope

Lower floor: second layer: left

91. Tape measure: 10 m, graduation metric and inch

92. Scotch tape 19 mm matt in a plastic container with a cut-off edge

93. A set of miniature (watch) screwdrivers

94. Adhesive roller for removing dust and fibers from fabric

Bottom Floor: Front Layer: Left Furthest

95. A set of tools in a plastic case of the format of a bank card

96. Invalid service certificates

97. Library cards of several libraries

98. Anesthetic tablets (ibuprofen) in a blister

99. Gas lighter

Lower floor: front layer: left closest to the buckle

100. Monthly travel pass for all types public transport Moscow

101. Valid IDs

102.2 awls with plastic protective caps

103. Can with synthetic pepper spray

A lot of everything? And you think that it is only in a vest!


P.S. I think most of the devices can be replaced with a modern mobile phone and multitool)

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Wow, this post just blew my mind.

The magazine, in which Anatoly Wasserman works as chief editor, decided to turn his pockets out.

A styptic pencil, a collection of banknotes, a flashlight, a telescope, Linux CDs, a screwdriver, dice are just the beginning.

POCKETS!

The editors of the magazine ... with growing concern are following the speculations on the contents of the vest pockets of our chief editor Anatoly Wasserman. As soon as the numerous would-be researchers were not sophisticated, discovering in the pockets of the venerable erudite then oil, then the brain, then gold. Individuals have even come to the point that rodents and other pests of fields and vegetable gardens are found in individual pockets.

How long! How long will we endure incompetence on the Internet!

Today we are correcting injustice. We bring to your attention the official *** of the contents of Anatoly Wasserman's vest pockets, excluding the Wasserman centimeter with a broken graduation, which was presented to the editor of the Idea X website.

Brief *** of the contents of the pockets of Anatoly Wasserman

Editor-in-chief Anatoly Aleksandrovich Wasserman showed up at the editorial office of his own magazine immediately upon his arrival from Odessa, rushing from the station on his birthday for a quick photo shoot. Despite a slight fatigue, he was extremely cheerful in spirit: he told stories, joked a lot, read another book about weapons and at the same time managed to give weighty administrative orders. When the editor-in-chief was distracted for half a minute, in the 27th, secret pocket of his vest, the employees of the publication accidentally discovered ... oil. Now a tender is being held for the development of this field, and its exact location is strictly classified. Well, we open access to the contents of the remaining pockets on the pages of Idea X.

History from Wasserman

Once I arrived at the SD (Severodonetsk - ed.) At the invitation of NPO Impulse, where I studied and fixed errors in software for computers. So, I come and check in at the Tsentralnaya Hotel. I go down to the restaurant, start a conversation with the waitress about studying the menu. When she takes the order away, an enthusiastic shout is heard from the kitchen: "Pleischner has arrived!"

Vest

I've been wearing multi-pocket vests since 1986. Initially, I sewed with my own hands. Then - when hunting vests began to appear on sale - he began to buy and sew on the missing pockets for them. Finally, in the last five years I have been ordering vests from a workwear sewing company. True, they only accept wholesale orders - at least 20 vests. For the years remaining to me, in which I can still carry such a load, I can hardly wear more than a dozen. Therefore, the surplus sold. And when he decided to strengthen some of the fasteners and therefore made a new order, at the same time he sold out the unworn remnant of the previous one.

There is a mention of 28 pockets in my waistcoat on the internet. This is the result of my typo when answering someone's question. In fact, the latest and penultimate models have 26 pockets. In the previous ones, even less.

Vest

Rear upper

The book "Federalist". The authors of the constitution of the United States of America - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - substantiated the key provisions of the constitution with a large series of newspaper essays so convincingly that in the end all 13 states voted for it and in 1787 it entered into force. Since then, the number of states living under this constitution has already reached 50, and only 26 amendments have been made to it (although the first 10 - the so-called Bill of Rights - are wholesale, as one of the conditions for its adoption). I bought the book a long time ago, but I read it in fits and starts - in between current affairs. And always with pleasure: not only from the depth political thought, but also from a style unattainable for today's politicians.

Cassette recorder. It seems to be hoary antiquity, I switched to digital a long time ago. But I still carry a cassette tape and recently even bought a new one, because in the previous one the mechanics were worn out. Transferring a recorded cassette to someone is sometimes much easier than transferring files from a digital camera.

Inflatable neck pillow. Allows you to sleep quite comfortably while sitting. With my ragged lifestyle, sometimes I have to sleep in the most unexpected places, for example, in the service car of my colleague and old friend Nurali Latypov (I don't drive a car myself and have no personal ones - it's easier if necessary to catch a passing car or "bomb" on the street).

Rear lower

Foldable automatic umbrella. Placed so well that it does not bother me in any position. Therefore, I do not take it out even in winter.

VEST. Right side

Upper floor: right

A spool of fine line used as sewing thread.

Plastic box with large sewing needles. Crochet hook with a cap (alas, I don't know how to knit, but with this hook it is convenient to pull out every little thing from narrow slots).


A styptic pencil (stick made of pressed alum crystals in a plastic package). Lantern with a miniature incandescent lamp.

Middle floor: right half-hidden (fastener - under the arm)

Internal passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

A small collection of banknotes (mostly out of circulation).

Middle floor: second layer: rightmost

Digital camera. Hard cardboard cover for ID cards. It contains official certificates for knives that I carry with me: the examination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs recognizes these knives not as cold weapons, but as household tools.

Digital pass to the building of the editorial office of the "Idea X" magazine.

Middle floor: second layer: right closest to the clasp

Keys to the Odessa apartment. Flashlight with nine LEDs.

Middle floor: second layer: right vertical at the fastener

Ballpoint pens, markers, collet with 2.2 mm lead, combined knife sharpener different types, text marker.

Middle floor: front layer: right extreme

Tape measure with soft tape (tailor's tape measure with spring retraction).

Monocular 2.5 * 20 (i.e. a miniature spyglass with 2.5x magnification and a 20 mm lens inlet).

Miniature siren whistle (to raise noise in case of a surprise attack).

Miniature screwdriver with interchangeable tips. Miniature shoe horn.

Middle Floor: Front Layer: Right Closest To Closure

Safety pins in different sizes. Disinfectant stick: a stick made of pressed crystals of silver nitrate in a plastic case.

Nail clippers. A collection of overprinted cardboard tickets for the Moscow metro in honor of various holidays and anniversaries. Miniature digital lock.

Middle floor: front layer: right vertical at the fastener

Collet with eraser for erasing pencil writing.

Ballpoint pens, markers.

Ballpoint pen with whitewash for painting over inscriptions.

Lead box 2.2 mm.

Spare blades for a paper knife.

Lower floor: back layer: right

Atlases: the world, the Moscow region, Moscow (with each house), route taxis in Odessa.

Lower floor: second layer: right

Solar powered calculator.

Personal and business telephone directories (printouts in small print on several sheets).

A list of books I have of several prolific authors whose work I can no longer keep in my memory and therefore risk buying something again without a list.

A box for business cards (it also contains a spare SIM card: I use different cards in Ukraine and Russia).

A wallet with old recordings (perhaps it is high time to transfer these recordings to digital media, but all the hands will not reach).

Lower floor: front layer: right closest to the fastener

Business cards not yet included in the phone and directory.

Records of addresses and telephone numbers (on metro tickets) that have not yet been entered (or not subject to entry, because they are needed for one-time use) in the telephone and directory.

Several packages of bactericidal patches.

Several packs of spare 0.5 mm leads.

Gas lighter (even non-smokers often use it).

Glue stick.

A can of pepper spray.

Lower floor: front layer: rightmost

Bank cards.

Discount cards.

Miniature (80mm) bootable optical discs with multiple versions of the Linux operating system.

A set of tweezers with different shapes of sponges.

Upper floor: left

Monocular 5 * 25 (i.e. a miniature spyglass with 5x magnification and an inlet diameter of the objective of 25 mm).

Mechanical bottle stopper with opener on the handle. A box of licorice pastilles (alas, in last years This delicacy is no longer brought to Moscow, so I eat up a long supply).

Flash drive with a capacity of 4 G bytes.

Flash drive with a capacity of 8 G bytes.

Middle floor: front layer: left extreme

Miniature sponge for cleaning shoes.

Guillotine for cigars (still never used).

Plastic pill box (sometimes you have to grab vitamins from home to take on schedule).

Two ultra miniature folding knives.

Miniature flashlight with LED.

Flash drive with a capacity of 1 GB (by nowadays it is negligible, and even the old one will start to malfunction; but this is one of the latest releases that have a mechanical write blocking engine, so you can safely connect it to someone else's computer without fear that a virus will get on it).

Flash disk with a capacity of 32 GB.

Middle floor: second layer: left vertical at the fastener

Mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm leads in different colors.

Ballpoint pens.

A screwdriver with replaceable nozzles and a ratchet mechanism that allows you to rotate it in one direction without intercepting, and shaking your hand in both directions.

Middle floor: left half-hidden (fastener - under the arm)

Internal passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of Ukrainian citizenship (no longer valid due to the absence of a photograph pasted at 45 years old - by that time Ukraine no longer pasted photographs into Soviet passports, but issued new ones).

Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine (no longer valid by itself, but it contains a special note on the validity of visas and other service marks entered into it, provided it is presented along with a valid foreign passport).

Foreign passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint on the citizenship of Ukraine (no longer valid due to the expiration of the term, but my only official photo, taken in 1995, has been preserved there).

The work record book (it, of course, should be kept in the organization, of which I am a full-time employee, but this organization is public and technically cannot burden itself with safes and archives, so a fair part of its documentation is kept by the employees).

A roll of rubber bands for tightening papers.

Middle floor: second layer: leftmost

Combined magnifier: 4x with 10x insert.

Magnifier combined: 10x 3-element and 20x 5-element.

Hooks for hanging bags under the countertops, 2 pieces.

Middle floor: second layer: left closest to the clasp

Folding knife.

Spare cassette for the recorder.

VEST. Left-hand side

Middle floor: front layer: left closest to the buckle

A stack of cardboard Moscow metro tickets (this cardboard does not wear out in years, so I use the blank side of the tickets to write down addresses and phone numbers, as well as for signing autographs; unfortunately, tickets of this type are no longer issued, and the new ones have printed text on both sides , so it is inconvenient to use them for recordings).

Combined magnifier: 2x with 8x insert.

Cassette with small sewing needles.

6 dice (once I was fond of several gambling games, although my colleagues and I always played not for money, but only for the result).

Middle floor: front layer: left vertical at the fastener

Ballpoint pens, markers.

Knife with a retractable sectional blade for cutting paper.

A set of nail files.

A metal comb (alas, there will soon be nothing to comb with it).

A sliding telescope 8 * 10 (that is, with an 8x magnification and a 10 mm lens entrance hole) - with these parameters, it can only be used in bright daylight, the eyepiece of the tube can be used as a 30x microscope.

Lower floor: back layer: left

Several old records in plastic packaging.

Plastic pencil case with files (miniature files with fine notches) different shapes and a handle for them.

10x microscope.

Lower floor: second layer: left

Tape measure: 10 m, metric and inch graduations.

Scotch tape 19 mm matt in a plastic container with a cut-off edge.

A set of miniature (watch) screwdrivers.

Adhesive roller for removing dust and fibers from fabric.

Bottom Floor: Front Layer: Left Furthest

A set of tools in a plastic case, bank card format

Invalid official IDs (left a couple of times different organizations under circumstances that do not allow the return of the certificate).

Library cards of several libraries (Odessa Regional Scientific, Russian State, State Public Scientific and Technical).

Pain reliever tablets (ibuprofen) in a blister.

Gas lighter (torch type - with a powerful flame, similar in shape to autogenous burners).

Lower floor: front layer: left closest to the buckle

A monthly pass for all types of public transport in Moscow (if I bought separate tickets, I would spend 2-3 times less in a month, but I prefer not to wonder if I have this moment stock of tickets, and is ready to overpay for it).

Valid IDs.

2 awls with plastic protective caps.

A can of synthetic pepper spray.

In the near future, the editors are going to get into Wasserman's pants.

I promise to keep you informed :)

At the sight of A. Wasserman and his gray vest (in the program “ A big difference"He said that his vest weighs about 7 kilograms), a sane person may have a question: what keeps so famous person in the many pockets of her stunt girl? A. Wasserman himself willingly talks about it ...

I've been wearing multi-pocket vests since 1986. Initially, I sewed with my own hands. Then, when hunting vests began to appear on sale, he began to buy and sew on the missing pockets for them. Finally, in the last five years I have been ordering vests from a workwear sewing company. True, they only accept wholesale orders - at least 20 vests. For the years remaining to me, in which I can still carry such a load, I hardly wear more than a dozen. Therefore, I sold the surplus. And when he decided to strengthen some of the fasteners and therefore made a new order, at the same time he sold out the unworn remnant of the previous one. On the Internet, there are references to 28 pockets in my vest. This is the result of my typo when answering someone's question. In fact, the latest and penultimate models have 26 pockets. In the previous ones, even less.

Vest

Rear upper:

The book "Federalist". The authors of the constitution of the United States of America - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - substantiated the key provisions of the constitution with a large series of newspaper essays so convincingly that in the end all 13 states voted for it and in 1787 it entered into force. Since then, the number of states living under this constitution has already reached 50, and only 26 amendments have been made to it (although the first 10 - the so-called Bill of Rights - are wholesale, as one of the conditions for its adoption). I bought the book a long time ago, but I read it in fits and starts - in between current affairs. And always with pleasure: not only from the depth of political thought, but also from the style unattainable for today's politicians.

Cassette recorder. It seems to be a hoary antiquity, I switched to digital a long time ago. But I still carry a cassette tape and recently even bought a new one, because in the previous one the mechanics were worn out. Transferring a recorded cassette to someone is sometimes much easier than transferring files from a digital camera.

Inflatable neck pillow. Allows you to sleep quite comfortably while sitting. With my ragged lifestyle, I sometimes have to sleep in the most unexpected places, for example, in the official car of my colleague and old friend Nurali Latypov (I myself do not drive and have no personal ones - it’s easier if necessary to catch a passing car or “bomb” on the street).

Rear lower:

- with panty automatic umbrella. Placed so well that it does not bother me in any position. Therefore, I do not take it out even in winter.

Top floor - right:

A spool of fine line used as sewing thread.

Plastic box with large sewing needles. Crochet hook with a cap (alas, I don't know how to knit, but with this hook it is convenient to pull out every little thing from narrow slots).

A styptic pencil (stick made of pressed alum crystals in a plastic package). Lantern with a miniature incandescent lamp.

Middle floor. Right half-hidden (fastener - under the arm):

Internal passport of a citizen of Ukraine. Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

A small collection of banknotes (mostly out of circulation).

Middle floor. The second layer is the rightmost one:

Digital camera. Rigid cardboard cover for ID cards. It contains official certificates for knives that I carry with me: the Ministry of Internal Affairs examination recognizes these knives not as melee weapons, but as household tools.

Digital pass to the building of the editorial office of the "Idea X" magazine.

Middle floor. The second layer is the right one closest to the fastener:

Keys to the Odessa apartment. Flashlight with nine LEDs.

Middle floor. The second layer is the right vertical one at the fastener:

Ballpoint pens, felt-tip pens, collet pencil with 2.2 mm lead, combined sharpener for different types of knives, text marker.

Middle floor. Front layer - right extreme:

Tape measure with soft tape (tailor's tape measure with spring retraction).

Monocular 2.5 * 20 (i.e. a miniature spyglass with 2.5x magnification and a 20 mm lens inlet).

Miniature siren whistle (to raise noise in case of a surprise attack).

Miniature screwdriver with replaceable bits. Miniature shoe horn.

Middle floor. Front layer - right vertical at the fastener:

Collet with eraser for erasing pencil writing.

Ballpoint pens, markers.

Ballpoint pen with whitewash for painting over inscriptions.

Lead box 2.2 mm.

Spare blades for a paper knife.

Lower floor. Back layer - right:

Atlases: the world, the Moscow region, Moscow (with each house), route taxis in Odessa.

Lower floor. The second layer is the right one:

Solar powered calculator.

Personal and business telephone directories (printouts in small print on several sheets).

A list of books I have of several prolific authors, whose work I can no longer keep in my memory, and therefore, without a list, I risk buying something again.

A box for business cards (it also contains a spare SIM card: I use different cards in Ukraine and Russia).

A wallet with old recordings (perhaps it is high time to transfer these recordings to digital media, but all the hands will not reach).

Ground floor. Front layer - right closest to the fastener:

Business cards not yet included in the phone and directory.

Records of addresses and telephone numbers (on metro tickets) that have not yet been entered (or not subject to entry, because they are needed for one-time use) in the telephone and directory.

Several packages of bactericidal patches.

Several packs of spare 0.5 mm leads.

Gas lighter (even non-smokers often use it).

Cool pencil.

A can of pepper spray.

Ground floor. Front layer - right extreme:

Bank cards.

Discount cards.

Miniature (80mm) bootable optical discs with multiple versions of the Linux operating system.

A set of tweezers with different shapes of sponges

Top floor - left:

Monocular 5 * 25 (i.e. a miniature spyglass with 5x magnification and an inlet diameter of the objective of 25 mm).

Mechanical bottle stopper with opener on the handle. A box of licorice pastilles (alas, in recent years this delicacy has not been brought to Moscow, so I eat up a long supply).

Flash drive with a capacity of 4 GB.

Flash drive with a capacity of 8 GB.

Middle floor. Front layer - left extreme:

Miniature sponge for cleaning shoes.

Guillotine for cigars (still never used).

Plastic pill box (sometimes you have to grab vitamins from home to take on schedule).

Two ultra miniature folding knives.

Miniature flashlight with LED.

Flash drive with a capacity of 1 GB (by nowadays it is negligible, and even the old one will start to malfunction; but this is one of the latest releases that have a mechanical write blocking engine, so that it can be safely connected to someone else's computer without fear, that a virus will get on it).

Flash drive with a capacity of 32 GB.

Middle floor. The second layer - left vertical at the fastener:

Mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm leads in different colors.

Ballpoint pens.

A screwdriver with interchangeable nozzles and a ratchet mechanism that allows you to rotate it in one direction without intercepting, and shaking your hand in both directions.

Middle floor. Left half-hidden (fastener - under the arm):

Internal passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of Ukrainian citizenship (no longer valid due to the absence of a photograph pasted at 45 years old - by that time Ukraine no longer pasted photographs into Soviet passports, but issued new ones).

Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine (no longer valid by itself, but it contains a special note on the validity of visas and other service marks entered into it, provided it is presented along with a valid foreign passport).

Foreign passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint on the citizenship of Ukraine (no longer valid due to the expiration of the term, but my only official photo, taken in 1995, has been preserved there).

The work record book (it, of course, should be kept in the organization, of which I am a full-time employee, but this organization is public and technically cannot burden itself with safes and archives, so a fair part of its documentation is kept by the employees).

A roll of rubber bands for tightening papers.

Middle floor. The second layer is the leftmost one:

Combined magnifier: 4x with 10x insert.

Magnifier combined: 10x 3-element and 20x 5-element.

Hooks for hanging bags under the countertops, 2 pieces.

Middle floor. The second layer is the left one closest to the fastener:

Folding knife.

Spare cassette for the recorder.

Middle floor. Front layer - left closest to the fastener:

A stack of cardboard Moscow metro tickets (this cardboard does not wear out in years, so I use the blank side of the tickets to write down addresses and phone numbers, as well as for signing autographs; unfortunately, tickets of this type are no longer issued, and the new ones have printed text on both sides , so it is inconvenient to use them for recordings).

Combined magnifier: 2x with 8x insert.

Cassette with small sewing needles.

6 dice (once I was fond of several gambling games, although my colleagues and I always played not for money, but only for the result).

Middle floor. Front layer - left vertical at the fastener:

Ballpoint pens, markers.

Knife with a retractable sectional blade for cutting paper.

A set of nail files.

A metal comb (alas, there will soon be nothing to comb with it).

A sliding telescope 8 * 10 (that is, with an 8x magnification and a 10 mm lens entrance hole) - with these parameters, it can only be used in bright daylight, the eyepiece of the tube can be used as a 30x microscope.

Ground floor. Back layer - left:

Several old records in plastic packaging.

Plastic pencil case with files (miniature files with fine notches) of various shapes and a handle for them.

10x microscope.

Ground floor. The second layer is the left one:

Tape measure 10 m, metric and inch graduations.

Scotch tape 19 mm matt in a plastic container with a cut-off edge.

A set of miniature (watch) screwdrivers.

Adhesive roller for removing dust and fibers from fabric.

Ground floor. Front layer - left extreme:

A set of tools in a plastic case in the format of a bank card.

Invalid service IDs (left different organizations a couple of times under circumstances that did not allow the ID to be returned).

Library cards of several libraries (Odessa Regional Scientific, Russian State, State Public Scientific and Technical).

Pain reliever tablets (ibuprofen) in a blister.

Gas lighter (torch type - with a powerful flame, similar in shape to autogenous burners).

Ground floor. Front layer - left closest to the fastener:

A monthly ticket for all types of public transport in Moscow (if I bought separate tickets, I would spend 2-3 times less in a month, but I prefer not to wonder if I have a stock of tickets at the moment and am ready to overpay for it) ...

Valid IDs.

2 awls with plastic protective caps.

A can of synthetic pepper spray.

http://www.1den.ru/articles/poznavatelno/

You can read about Anatoly Oleksandrovich Wasserman in ru.wikipedia.org/

awas1952 awas1952.livejournal.com - Anatoly Wasserman in "Live Journal" or here awas.ws.

- Eighteen pockets in one suit! I would just be confused!
A. Milne "Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All"


The multiple winner of the TV project "Own Game" is easy to recognize on the street: a mighty beard, academic round glasses and a pot-bellied light gray vest. The vest, about which there are a lot of rumors in Runet. For example, they say that Anatoly Aleksandrovich hides in it a perpetual motion machine, a stabilization fund for Russia, five spare brains and 350 other things. In order not to forget what is where, the erudite carries a list of all the contents of the vest in the pocket numbered "zero", and a backup copy in the pocket numbered "one".

But these are just rumors. In fact, in twenty-six pockets of his waistcoat, Wasserman only stores 103 items and remembers without any notes where he put what. If a couple of years ago Onotole had not given up carrying bouillon cubes, salt and a boiler with him, there would have been more things. However, first things first.


Anatoly Wasserman made his first vest with many pockets himself in 1986. The outfit turned out to be comfortable and functional, and the intellectual made a couple of such things. What for? In order to always have at hand various household little things, because in those days Wasserman constantly disappeared on long-term business trips, doing not intellectual games, and developments software... Here's how he talks about this period of his life in one of his interviews:

I worked mainly in sugar beet factories, where sometimes I had to sit in the machine room for several days without getting out. Imagine a situation: adjusters open some kind of hatch to get to the devices they need, you cling to this hatch, tear your trousers. You don't have time to go to the hotel to sew them up. So, you need to keep a needle and thread with you. And so gradually an extensive list of things has accumulated that you have to keep with you constantly ...


When hunting vests appeared on sale, the need for their own production from an advanced technician disappeared. Savvy Odessa citizen bought finished goods and just attached the missing three or four pockets to them. For the last eight years, Anatoly Aleksandrovich has been ordering vests from a company specializing in tailoring elite workwear. The model being produced was even named after him.


Well, what is still stored in the numerous "stashes" of the expert? Is there a spare brain and even a fraction of the Russian stabilization fund? So, turn out the Wasserman pockets:


As you can see, there are no particularly exotic things in Wasserman's vest. But there is a knitting needle (to pull out things that have fallen into narrow cracks), a lighter (suddenly, someone asks for a cigarette) and a tool for knocking out car windows (suddenly you have to remove a person from the passenger compartment during an accident).

1. Anatoly VASSERMAN, born in 1952. Thermal physics engineer, journalist, political consultant and multiple winner of intellectual TV games ("Brain Ring", "What? Where? When?", "Own Game"). At the age of 17, he took a vow of celibacy and still observes it.