summer under the Owl`s Wing

In 1980, an event of a planetary scale occurred in the USSR. The whole world followed the first summer Olympics in the USSR. Despite the boycott of the competition by some countries, for the USSR it was a truly great project that raised the patriotism of the Soviet youth to an unprecedented height. Another project of the Soviet government, which began around the same time, is still being carried out, and until 2013 almost no one knew about it. It would seem that the USSR has long gone into oblivion, and since the beginning of the experiment has been much more than a quarter of a century, but the success of the project allowed the landfill to survive the collapse of the Soviet Union, and subsequent economic problems... The project was conceived by two committees - the KGB and the VLKSM, with the aim of raising a real patriot, with ideal qualities for a communist. Even then, people with unpatriotic views appeared among the people, this worried the top leadership. To create the necessary political and social moods for the government, several programs on television and radio were invented, newspapers and magazines dedicated to young people were published... And the Polygon was built, where patriotic and life-affirming sentiments poured into the minds of the younger generation. Outwardly, the Polygon looked like a pioneer camp, or rather, the camp was such, but not everything was so simple.. The building of the first building of this camp was built before the revolution, it was the estate of a local landowner. In the early thirties, geologists discovered a coal deposit near the estate, and the building of the estate of the dekulakized landowner was transferred to the main building of the mining village. During the Great Patriotic War, the front line was fifty kilometers west of the miner's village, and for security reasons, the upper level of the mines was converted into a bomb shelter, and the lower continued to work, supplying the front with coal. Unfortunately, the proven reserves were too small, and in the early fifties the mine was closed. An anti-radiation system was installed in the bomb shelter - no wonder, after the US attack with nuclear bombs on the cities of Japan at the end of World War II - and the lower level was blocked. The mining village was converted into a pioneer camp "Shakhtar". That’s what the miners’ kids called him when they were on vacation with their parents. The camp remained unchanged until the mid-1970s... A new camp was built nearby, which was called "The Owl.". For a while, both camps existed side by side, until a tragedy occurred in Shakhtar. The love story of the young counselor and pioneer ended when the pioneer was hit by a bus, and the counselor was found the next morning in a loop in the attic of the administrative building. There was a lot of noise, a lot of history, all over the Union. As a result, Shakhtar closed, the children were partially taken to their homes, and those who did not want to were transferred to "Ovyonok".. Since the mid-1960s, after the visit of the Secretary General to the United States, structural changes in youth policy began... The main change affected the age groups, the party considered that childhood and youth should be extended in order to learn more about the readiness of young people for adult independent life. It was decided to extend the age limit of the pioneers from nine to seventeen years, increasing the upper threshold from fourteen to seventeen years. At the end of school, children exchanged pioneer badges for Komsomol badges, and entered institutions as Komsomol members... To develop children’s life and communication skills, various interest clubs were created at schools and pioneer camps... For boys and young men, these were clubs in carpentry, locksmithing, aircraft and car modeling, as well as electrical engineering and cybernetics... Home economics clubs were created for girls and girls, where pioneers were trained in sewing, knitting, cooking and first aid. There were also general clubs for music, literature, drawing, and sports. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Many children found their calling in the clubs for the rest of their lives, sometimes in spite of, and sometimes thanks to the wishes of their relatives. So, for example, Trofimov Alexander, thanks to his father, directly fell ill with cybernetics, and was preparing after school to apply to Moscow State University for the Polytechnic University... And if it hadn’t been for the accident in his father’s laboratory, which was the beginning of the Polygon, Shurik might well have become a great physicist. Sergey Syroyezhkin, after he had an adventure with Electronika, was also fond of cybernetics and electrics, not so, of course, as Shurik, but the knowledge of how to repair an outlet, fix an acoustic speaker or build a current converter from 220 to 12 volts, Syroyezhkin had plenty of. Because of his love for different electronics, Sergey got his nickname “Electronics. Ulyana Sovetova looked the least and was almost two years younger than the rest of her class, because she studied well in all subjects, and twice — from the first to the third and from the fourth to the sixth — jumped over the classes. Ulya loved leprosy and mischief, rather not because of her character, but because age and irrepressible energy required an outlet, and even the sport, to which she devoted a large amount of time, could not cope with this task. Slavana Yaseneva used her unspent energy on socially useful things, she was not a burden to help other children in school and work... She - born in a large family, where there were seven brothers besides her, and the parents waited for the eighth - often replaced the younger brothers with her mother, and since the family lived in the village, the female part of the economy was on an active Slavyanka... Elena Tikhonov character fully corresponded to his name, she was fond of drawing and reading romantic stories, but, as you know, "in a quiet pool...". Lenochka had her own secrets: one of them was connected with her uncle, on her mother’s side, a hunter whom Lena loved very much, and who, the day before his death from poachers, gave her a hunting knife. And now Lena took him everywhere with her — both as a memory, and as a talisman, and as a means of protection. Evgenia Sokolova loved to read, so much so that she planted her eyes in the fifth grade, and since then she wore glasses, but she did not put an end to her hobby, books became the meaning of her life. Zhenya could talk for hours about the books she had read, and this was the reason why she was trusted to be a librarian and to lead literary circles. Miku Hatsune, a Japanese by mother and Russian by father, at the insistence of the father at the age of five, was sent to a music school and was so fond of music that she could play any instrument, and having a beautiful voice, quickly became popular in her mother’s homeland, and in her father’s homeland she began to study music with children. Alice Dvachevsky, on the contrary, was carried away by music in spite of her guardians, who wanted to raise a doctor from a ward, and even ran away from the foster family back to the orphanage, after her passion for guitar music and failure in some subjects caused a serious conflict in the foster family. These were the men who formed the first group of the camp, and they were destined to be the most important part of the Polygon. But back to Shurik. His talent, under the guidance of his father, a professor at a technical university, gave science a way of quantum leaps. In other words, Shurik invented a machine for traveling through time and space, into the future and the past, and even into other worlds and dimensions. His first trip with his car he made to the next apartment, making the wall between the apartments disappear... Neighbors were in shock when the wall suddenly became transparent, and the paintings hanging on nails froze in the air. The experimenters had to explain to their frightened neighbors that this was such a scientific experiment that they did not pursue any evil intentions. The machine made the next leap in the 16th century, but in this experiment there was a jump in electricity, which caused some transistors to burn out in the machine, the entire block was de-energized, and the neighbor was in the past. After eliminating all the breakdowns, the neighbor was successfully returned, and Shurik and his father were summoned to the KGB a week later. And it is unknown what would have happened to the professor and his family if Shurik, the day before receiving the summons, had not decided on a new experiment. He conceived and almost successfully made a journey of ten years into the future. Almost successful, because he managed to open the portal and pass in 1986, but there was no opportunity for a return trip. While Shurik studied history in the local library, to his house in 1976 already gathered and the police, and doctors, and “people in plain clothes”.. And the machine itself is out of order again — again burned contacts. The result of this experiment was very sad for the Trofimov family. Shurik was declared missing, and his father and mother were arrested. All the equipment and documentation of the experiments were confiscated by the authorities and transferred to a secret laboratory. The next morning, after the interrogations, the professor was brought there too. Shurik’s mother, a pediatrician by profession, did not survive that night — her heart could not stand it. But his father began to cooperate with the authorities: after the death of his wife, Professor Trofimov wanted only one thing — to find his son. The organs did their best to help him, but for their own reasons — such a machine could make the USSR the most powerful country in the world. Time and space management is a very useful technology. While Trofimov-father unsuccessfully tried to restore contact with the time where Trofimov-son allegedly got, the latter got into an orphanage, as it turned out that the parents in the time period where he got, are already dead. And Shurik got into the same orphanage in which Dvachevskaya Alice was placed when she once again ran away from her guardians. Three years after the disappearance of his son, it occurred to Professor Trofimov to fix time to buy time to look for his son... Two more years passed, and the professor received in his laboratory the first quantum time loop. It took another three years to create a separate installation of quantum time loops. By that time, the device itself had undergone external changes, became more compact, and was controlled using a personal computer... At this time, one of Professor Trofimov’s two laboratory assistants dies in the accident, and he is replaced by a certain candidate of technical sciences, Estonian Piatäraitis. The new laboratory assistant, on arrival, immediately began to study the documentation of Trofimov’s laboratory work... That appealed to the professor. It could be seen that Pyataraitis was a meticulous and responsible man. The professor even allowed the laboratory assistant to be present at the experiments, so that he would take notes on their conduct. Only Trofimov Sr. did not see in the new laboratory assistant the source of problems. He was actually a very dangerous criminal, a member of the Stamp gang operating in the Baltic republics of the USSR. A few years earlier, this gang had already committed one crime - the villains with the help of an electromagnetic trap immobilized and kidnapped from another Soviet scientist, Professor Gromov, an android created by him, a robot boy. The appearance of the robot Gromov created from a photo of his childhood friend Sergei Syroezhkin, who grew a son, who was also called Sergei... The android was called Electron, however, Gromov did not address the robot by name, but affectionately called the created miracle of technology "Electronics. Stump’s gang was neutralized, with the help of Electronics, when they tried to steal a collection of paintings from a museum in Riga. However, Stump and Pyatyaraytis managed to avoid arrest, and, escaping from the police raid, “went to the bottom”.. However, for a while - after learning about the new invention of Soviet scientists, the bandits decided to use it. After gathering the necessary data, he reported it to Stump, and the leader decided to steal the experimental compact unit along with the documentation. Professor Trofimov and the second technician tried to detain the kidnapper on their own, but the bandit fatally wounded the professor, and escaped, taking the equipment. The doctors called by the second laboratory assistant stated the death of Trofimov Sr., and a police raid began on the bandit. Law enforcement agencies managed to block Pyatyaraytis, but he began to shoot back, so special forces were called, with the order to "work" to defeat. The equipment was miraculously undamaged. After neutralizing the bandit, the equipment was returned to the laboratory, and the work on the project was transferred to Professor Gromov.. By combining the two technologies within the Polygon, and adding an ideological component to it, the Komsomol and the KGB began to educate the ideal pioneer and the future of the Komsomol. Professor Gromov was appointed chief of the police station. Gromov offered to appoint Professor Tikhonov, Lena’s father, as his deputy for the technical unit... Gromov himself was responsible for general affairs at the facility, but the post of head of the biological unit of the project was given to a young promising woman, candidate of biological and medical sciences, Violetta Collider, daughter of the Italian communist of Swiss origin Zern Collider, who escaped at the beginning of the Second World War in the USSR... At home, Comrade Collider was a surgeon, which was very useful in our country: during the war, Cern had about six thousand operations and more than five thousand saved lives... After the war, Comrade Collider was asked to stay in the Union, to which he gladly agreed, because by that time the doctor already had a Russian wife... The Colliders settled in the city of Dubna, which is located to the northeast of the capital... The doctor was given a nice apartment overlooking the Volga. He was a surgeon, she was an anesthesiologist. In 1952, the doctor’s family gave birth to a daughter, a long-awaited child, who was called “Viola. Three months after birth, Violochka was diagnosed with heterochromia, then it was attributed to a rare mixture of genes, but this opinion turned out to be erroneous. The girl was finishing the eighth grade of secondary school No. 4 in Dubna, and while at home, preparing for exams, when the phone rang... Mom, bursting into tears, told her daughter about the stroke of the father. Cern Collider lived another year, and managed to dictate his biography to his daughter on the record, and the life of Dr. Collider was very sad. It all started with the fact that the communist Collider, arrested by the Italian Nazis, for being present at the labor strike, and sent to a concentration camp in Germany, where prisoners were put experiments with the genome. Nor did our doctor, who at that time had just completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan, escape it. However, the Nazis quickly realized who Herr Collider was and attracted him to the processes of experimental medicine... The doctor was given relative freedom, even allowed to travel to other concentration camps, which he used to escape, putting the convoy to sleep. Comrade Zern fled first to France, from there to England, and from there to the USSR, where his medical education was in the right place. And naturally, Violetta, living in a family of doctors, began to get involved in medicine, and eventually followed in the footsteps of her parents. She passed exams in a medical university, studied, having received a bachelor of medicine in the specialty "pediatrics". After studying for another nine years at additional courses, Violetta Zernovna received diplomas in gynecology, psychology, as well as genetic bioengineering. During her pediatric practice, Viola met Marina Trofimova, Shurik's mother, and through her met Professor Trofimov and his son. Then Shurik was fifteen, and Viola was a twenty-three-year-old girl, who at that time already had a five-year-old daughter, Yulia. It was the daughter, or rather her appearance and abilities, that was Viola’s greatest secret. After her father’s death, Viola felt an urgent need for male companionship. And soon found this society in the person of Arkashi, the neighbor’s son, who was then eighteen years old. Unfortunately for Viola, the guy was handsome and had a reputation as a bully and the boss of all the local youth. Handsome, strong, and tall, he drove all the local girls in the fifteen-to-twenty age range crazy, and Viola was no exception. By then, though, Viola had blossomed, grown firm in the right places, and by the time she was seventeen she had a lot of admirers. One warm September day Viola comes home from school, and in the yard sits Arkasha, drinks lemonade and smokes. Viola remarks to Arkasha that it is too early for him to smoke, to which Arkasha takes a last drag and throws the cigarette into the urn, and then offers Viola a drink of lemonade, the girl agrees, takes the bottle, takes a couple of sips, and returns the bottle to Arkasha. But when you try to transfer, the bottle slips out, and, falling, breaks, and the fragments scatter. One shard scrapes Viola’s shin, and the other digs into Arkady’s arm. Violet apologizes and, as an apology, invites the boy to her room to disinfect the wound and apply a bandage. Arkasha, grateful and embarrassed, leaves to invite the girl to the cinema the next day. Thus was born a love that lasted a year. In the spring, Arkash was drafted into the army. The medical examination showed that Arkady was fit for distribution and was going to the anti-aircraft troops, namely to the artillery school near Tashkent. And Viola decided to see the boy off as an adult — after all, she had just turned seventeen, and she decided that she could sort out such questions herself. She knew where to get “product No. 2” — an older friend, whose mother worked in a pharmacy, and especially for twenty-year-old Alena, prescribed herself a box of these products... A friend singled out Viola as many as three foil-wrapped “products No. 2” and taught her how to use them on a cucumber. Arkasha, who was as inexperienced as he was thirsty, found Viola’s offer of a lively interest and fervent support. At that time, the presence of a friend increased the authority among local boys. And since everyone in the district knew about the love story, both mothers (Arkasha’s father also did not live to see him come of age) were already preparing for the wedding, which was to take place after the. Young people, of course, among acquaintances, were already considered “married,” and friends, the closer the day of the draft, the more often they hid Viola and Arkasha from their mothers. And on the night of the summoning, the same friend gave Viola the keys to the communal room, promising that if they were looking for the girl, they would ask her out for the night. The night turned out to be magical, and the morning was hectic, the military commissariat was waiting for Arkasha, Viola had to go to classes, and everyone forgot about the torn product No. 2. True for a while - Viola's mother quickly learned about the lack of menstruation in her daughter. Violet had to confess. They immediately contacted both Arkash and his mother. They were glad, Arkasha even tried to go AWOL to earn money for his future offspring. Everyone tried to talk him out of it, and in the end they persuaded him to serve until the end. Still, starting a family story with a case wasn’t a good idea. And Arkasha remained to serve, moreover, he, as in the film “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”, began to pay his military duty even more diligently. This went on for about six months, until the Soviet Government considered it necessary to help Vietnam in its war of liberation... Arkady volunteered for this mission, because any such operation led to awards and honors, and the young soldier dreamed of the rank of general... In the war for the independence of Vietnam, only 16 Soviet soldiers, internationalists, died when anti-aircraft troops took battle with the US Air Force, while defending the airfield... Among those 16 dead was Arkady... The funeral took a month, because first for several days the orderlies collected fragments of bodies, then carried out an examination, then sealed the zinc coffins, and in them, on arrival at home, were buried... For Viola, the sad news was a catalyst for childbirth. I had to give birth at home, in the bath, because the ambulance would not have had time, and my mother, as a pediatrician, coped with the birth herself. And when a little girl was born, both the mother and Viola herself almost lost their minds - a strange mutation appeared in the newborn girl: her head was decorated not with human, but with cat ears, and a tail stuck out of the tailbone, again cat. But otherwise she was just a girl, with a pretty face and dark brown hair. Viola’s mother, having become the strangest grandmother, wanted to get rid of her newborn granddaughter, but Viola stopped her. “I’ll leave her,” she said softly, and hugged her daughter to her chest. The newborn pressed her mouth to her nipple and began to eat, smacking her lips..... Despite the obvious mutation, the girl survived. Through acquaintances, acquaintances of acquaintances, acquaintances of acquaintances, the grandmother managed to legalize the granddaughter with an unusual appearance by checking her documents. They called the girl Yule. No one knew how long the cat-girl would live, how adapted she would be to life in the big world. Viola, studying at the medical institute in pediatrics, studied psychology at the same time - she wanted to be prepared for the fact that she would have to explain to her daughter her differences with other girls whom she saw in pictures and on rare walks with her mother or grandmother. Julia already at the age of five began to show superhuman abilities, she had supersensitive hearing, sight and smell, by the age of seven the cat girl discovered the gift of empathy, and three years later Julia discovered the ability to open interdimensional tunnels - in other words, the girl began to move through time and space. Viola, or already Violeta Zernovna, already worked as a pediatrician in a children's clinic, and in parallel studied at courses in bioengineering when she was invited to work in a new project... So Viola and got into the pioneer camp "Sovyonok". She immediately recognized this place, as a child she often rested in Shakhtar, where her mother was invited to the post of doctor... Viola knew all about the mines under Shakhtar, and about the bomb shelter with its catacombs, and about the story of the closure of Shakhtar and the opening of the "Owl".. In Shakhtar, Viola, or as other children called her, Wilka met Olga Mironova, who was several years younger, as well as Boris Bogatyrev, who later became a local gym teacher... Subsequently, Viola no longer attended the camp, as she was busy studying at the institute and raising her special daughter... But Olga, having studied for a teacher, was promoted to the position of pioneer guide, first in junior detachments, and then in older ones... The school passion for volleyball remained at the institute, moreover, Olya was able to get a candidate for master of sports. And by the age of twenty-eight, Olga Dmitrievna Mironova was already an experienced pioneer guide, who was not only trusted by the oldest, the first group of pioneers, but also the posts of deputy director of the camp for educational work and senior guide... The camp in Sovyonka appeared at the request of Violetta Zernovna, Professor Gromov wanted to look for a pioneer camp near the camp in Siberia, but Viola did not want to leave her daughter and change her place of work, so she advised the camp site for the experiments of the Polygon to Gromov... The professor liked the camp, especially liked the underground communications of Shakhtar, and the work began: first of all, the administrative building was rebuilt, a new warehouse was built, and the old one was transformed into a library, houses were put instead of tents, some were made in the form of half-barrels, and some in the form of pyramids. The dining room had been remodeled to accommodate four squads, not two, as before. Clubs of interest divided and expanded: built a second building, adding to each storeroom, separately built the building of the music club. They remade the stage, built a beach on the river, added a boat station. Two volleyball courts were added to the football field, which could be converted into tennis courts, and in the indoor hall table tennis tables, chess and checker tables, mats for gymnastics and simulators for strength exercises were installed. In the center of the camp there was a square where a pedestal was erected under the monument to the leader of the proletariat, but when they began to dig a depression for the foundation, they found an underground room and a passage that led to the mines, and further to the "Miner".. It was decided to shift the foundation a little, expand the shafts, lay out concrete, and in the found room to arrange a boiler room, from where to extend pipes to the showers, to the medical center, to the laundry and to the kitchen. The entrance to the boiler room had been barred and padlocked to prevent children from entering the shafts, and the shaft and boiler room were now separated by a sliding gate.. For the functioning of the Polygon, two statues of pioneers were involved at the entrance to the camp, a pedestal for a monument in the central square, a bomb shelter under the Shakhtar, and the monument itself... All the equipment for the Polygon was purchased in Japan, and statues of the pioneers and Lenin were ordered there with built-in sensors, bioscanners and a radio transmitter tuned to a certain wave... The pioneers came out for a look and did not cause any complaints in appearance, but with a statue of Lenin there was an occasion: the sculptors confused something and instead of Lenin, pointing the way in the direction of real communism, sent a very strange sculpture of a certain Genda, explaining to the Soviet comrades that this, they say, was such a great Japanese figure who sympathizes with the Communists. Gromov spewed lightning, sending the Japanese to their ancestors, but when checked, all the equipment was in place and functioning... And the professor waved his hand — the children would not be picky anyway, and especially curious people were soothed with a phrase about the Japanese sympathy for the Communists. In the bomb shelter of the Polygon, scientists created a transition room, since the management agreed on the power of only ten versions of the Polygon, special access codes to the desired copy of the camp were invented... Initially, the character was brought to Camp Zero, from where he was already moved to other versions, or left in the Zero version for further study... The versions were numbered from zero to nine, where each digit corresponded to the symbolism of the hobbies, occupations or features of the appearance of each of the participants in the experiment. So, Slavyana Yaseneva received the designation of chamomile, Elena Tikhonov - brushes, Alice Dvachevsky - guitars, Ulyana Sovetova - bear cub, Miku Khatsune - notes, Yevgenia Sokolova - books, Olga Mironova - white panamki, and Viola Collider - syringe. The ninth copy was unactivated until a certain point. Project leaders did not want random and uncontrolled movements of the character and other camp residents throughout the Polygon, so they created several security barriers. To move to the desired version of the camp, the character on the day of departure had to have an individual license plate, which was spelled out on the inside of the chevron, a symbol of the pioneer organization, as well as a thing belonging to the inhabitant of the camp, in the version of which the Character intended to get. In addition, two buses, LiAZ and Ikarus, were involved, they were equipped with sleeper gas installations... LiAZ — the same one who had shot down the pioneer from the Shakhtar camp — was now working in Moscow, driving through the streets in the evening, closer to midnight, or early in the morning, picking up belated travelers and early birds. The installation was only on when the characters Polygon was looking for were on the bus, and they were alone on the bus. The polygon needed people of different ages who were emotionally prone to suicide, aggression, seclusion, excessive perfectionism, or were observed by a psychologist as unstable.. After the desired person immersed in suspended animation, she was taken to the laboratory, if necessary, rejuvenated to the age group of the first (the oldest) detachment, and then transferred with the help of the Trofimov Installation to the Polygon, where she was seated in Ikarus, and left on the bus at the central gate so that she would wake up. The experiment was conducted for a week, but after three days it became clear whether the character was ready for further stay on the Polygon, after which the decision was made: to leave the tested person for another three or six weeks, or release him from the Polygon, with further observation. The girls were supposed to be watching after graduation. And this task was accomplished by the electronic copies of the pioneers of the first detachment created by Gromov: Alice, Lena, Ulya, Miku, Zhenya, Slavya. Even the older ones, Olga and Viola, were created, for no one could predict what type the subject would like. In addition to the girls, male versions were created: Shurik, Elektronik, and even Boris Alexandrovich, a local gym teacher, but they did not participate in the experiment, but only played the role of extras, or conductors, and also diluted the female team so that the characters did not have special suspicions. During the preparation for the launch of the Polygon, Violetta, being in the camp, began to notice strangeness in her workplace - ascorbics began to disappear from the medical center... Viola decided to keep an eye on the office, and a day later she found her daughter. Julia missed her mother and moved to the medical center, saw that her mother was resting, checked the lockers, found ascorbic acid, tasted it, realized that it was delicious, and decided to take them. She took two packages, and after a day the ascorbics were over, and Yulia climbed back into the medical center, this time taking four packages, and three days later her mother found her. Since her daughter was still a special child living in her own world, Violetta communicated with her in a special way, borrowed from Olga, when she chastised Tolik, the most age-old pioneer of the camp. The man was already forty years old, he had concussion, meningitis and encephalitis among his ailments, received at the age of thirteen, when he went to the forest for mushrooms, and found a grenade on a stretcher. The guy was lucky he was crawling on his hands and knees, if he’d been standing, the explosion would have killed him, but it was only a concussion, and he was unconscious all night, during which time he cooled his ears, and a tick bit him. Tolik was an orphan, brought up by his grandmother in a village that was fifteen kilometers away, or an hour by bicycle from Shakhtar, and when she died, he came to Shakhtar.”. There they dressed him, handed him a broom, and put him on the payroll, and when Shakhtar was closed, he was taken to the director of Sovyonka, who worked before the opening of the Polygon. Gromov, when he learned about such a "pioneer", did not send him away, but offered to work as a janitor again... Viola realized that hiding from the authorities the fact that her daughter could safely move from Tver to her and back, entails a huge danger, after all, it was a secret object of the KGB, and if Yulia is noticed before she has time to move, the security of the object will shoot. And Violet Zernovna had to show Yul to Professors Gromov and Tikhonov. There was a whole scientific symposium, where the fate of Yuli was decided, from now on she was a member of the Polygon team, with the call sign "Charon", Her duties included the search for characters with a difficult fate, with psychological or other problems that needed a change of scenery... Julia received the authority to influence the thoughts of the future character of the Polygon, in order to shift his thoughts towards the benefit of visiting the Polygon, and finally she had to accompany the character in the LiAZ from his stop to the laboratory. There, Yulia handed the man from hand to hand to the laboratory assistants, and moved with the transformed character to the Polygon, where she wrote a report with the help of her mother, and then received a rest, which she spent on the Polygon - next to her mother is always better! Five times Julia confessed to her mother that she liked this or that character, and Viola decided that her daughter could be given independence in the matter of choosing her own life partner, and therefore tried to persuade Professor Gromov to include Julia in the number of electronic copies. Comrade Viola’s words, not immediately, but pushed through the inclusion of Yuli in the composition of copies, but with the condition of mutual sympathy. An electronic copy with ears and tail was created. She was placed in the latest version, the ninth version of the Polygon, and marked in the graphic version with the drawing of a cat. Moreover, Yuli’s choice was not available if she herself did not want to meet with the subject. When the character got to the Polygon, he was sent to the Zero version, and already there, focusing on the analysis of the situation and the preferences of the character himself, he was given a choice: leave the Polygon or try to change fate. In the first case, the character had the choice of leaving the Polygon - back to his time or to continue life in the USSR. And if the character decided to change his fate, he was moved to his chosen version, where the subject was waiting for the chosen copy of the girl. At the end of the shift, depending on the desire of the subject, he could be left for another one or two shifts, and Julia received another three or six weeks of quiet life, close to her mother... Julia did not communicate with other inhabitants of the Zero version of the Polygon, only occasionally her shadow or silhouette appeared in the eyes of the guards and especially bright pioneers... And there were rumors about a cat girl on "The Owl. The guards were alerted, and everyone else was fed a ghost story. Here, as if to the place, there was a story about the deceased leader of the Shakhtar, and everyone who wanted to find a solution, were afraid and quiet. All the processes of the Polygon were under the control of the KGB of the USSR, and after the Soviet Union went into oblivion, breaking up into fifteen separate countries, the Polygon, or rather its external part - LiAZ, the laboratory and the installation of Professor Trofimov, was occupied by specialists from the FSB. The General Secretary was now called in the Western manner - the President, the republics of the USSR became separate states. But little has changed in Polygon’s life. The difference was that the character now chose his own path and himself moved from Camp Zero to the versions he needed. To do this, some processes were automated, and to make it easier for the character to navigate, they released instructions. Each version of the camp had its own instructions, for no one knew the character’s intentions in advance. Instructions were posted in the transition rooms, as well as in the library, and more copies were laid out on the Director of Camp Zero’s desk. The foundations of the Polygon, due to the ringedness of time and space, remained unshakable, and everything else was taken under the control of the FSB of the Russian Federation. In 2004, one of the natives of the Polygon decided to organize such an event, only changing the concept quite a bit... He added maximum publicity, saying that it will be a reality show, created his backstory, and for a good ten and a half years every day on blue TV screens the country is watching the lives of young people. Guys and girls together built one house, then another, and now they just live in the same space: find a common language, fall in love, some get married and even have children. However, the Polygon, with its technology, with its influence on the mind and senses, the famous television of our days is far away... And therefore, the Polygon, like the whole project, has not lost relevance, they continue to work and wait for new characters.