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How many fingers did Yeltsin have? The creators of the Yekaterinburg monument to the first president seem to be confused in his biography. In the end, everything turned out the other way around. PHOTO riddle from the site

The author of the Yekaterinburg monument to the famous Ural resident, the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Georgy Frangulyan, seems to have made a factual error. As you know, Boris Nikolaevich had one hand injured - two fingers were missing on his left, the right was fine. However, on the monument three fingers are depicted on the right hand. On the left there are four of them, one of which is broken by a notch that can be mistaken for an injury.

Left - left hand Yeltsin, right - right

Was this a mistake by the sculptors who mixed up their injured hands and then corrected their mistake? Or a disregard for details; after all, Yeltsin is depicted on the stele in a very symbolic way? Now you, our readers, try it!

To reduce doubts, here is an excerpt from Boris Nikolaevich’s autobiographical story: “And with the loss of two fingers, this is what happened. The war, all the guys wanted to go to the front, but, naturally, they didn’t let us in. They made pistols, rifles, even a cannon. We decided to find the grenades and take them apart to study and understand what was inside. I undertook to penetrate the church (there was a weapons depot there). At night he climbed through three strips of barbed wire and, while the sentry was on the other side, sawed through the bars in the window, climbed inside, took two RGD-33 grenades with fuses and, fortunately, got out safely (the sentry fired without warning). We drove about sixty kilometers into the forest and decided to dismantle the grenades. Still, he figured out how to persuade the guys to move a hundred meters away: he hit them with a hammer, kneeling, and put the grenade on a stone.

But I didn’t take out the fuse, I didn’t know. Explosion... and there are no fingers. The guys were not affected. While we were getting to the city, I lost consciousness several times. In the hospital, under my father’s signature (gangrene had set in), an operation was performed, my fingers were cut off, and I showed up at school with my hand bandaged.”

An entire era in the history of our country is associated with the name of Boris Yeltsin: the collapse of the USSR, economic reforms, the war in Chechnya, default. However, his contemporaries remembered him not only for his political actions, but also for the characteristics of his personality. Dni.Ru has collected the most interesting facts about the life of the first president of Russia.

Three-fingered

The first Russian president was missing two fingers on his left hand. He lost them as a child. Yeltsin himself wrote in his autobiographical book “Confession on a Given Topic” that he lost his fingers due to a grenade explosion.

It was during the war. All the boys wanted to go to the front, but boys who were not yet 10 years old were naturally not allowed to go to war. Yeltsin and his comrades decided to find a grenade; they were interested in taking it apart and finding out what was inside.

At night, Yeltsin penetrated through rows of barbed wire into the church building, where at that time there was an ammunition depot, took two RGD-33 grenades and safely got back, past the guards. Then the future president and his friends ran into the forest and decided to take apart the “trophies.” The ammunition was hit with a hammer, resulting in an explosion. Only Yeltsin suffered, his comrades were not touched. On the way to the city, he lost consciousness several times. Already in the hospital, two of his fingers were amputated under his father’s signature.

Boris Yeltsin (second from left) Photo: wikipedia.org

Brave Master

In 1950, 19-year-old Yeltsin entered the Ural Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Construction, from which he graduated five years later, receiving the qualification of a civil engineer. In the same year, he was assigned to a construction trust, where he worked as the head of one of the sections.

According to Yeltsin’s recollections, once criminals were given his subordination. A conflict arose between the boss and his subordinates: the future president refused to close the criminals’ orders for work not done. The next day, one of them waylaid Yeatsin with an ax and, under threat of death, tried to force him to close the squads. He was not at a loss. "Go away!" - he sharply answered the attacker, after which the criminal had no choice but to throw the ax and leave.

By the way, being already an experienced builder with 10 years of experience, Yeltsin worked as an engineer at the Sverdlovsk house-building plant. At the end of the five-year plan, he was to be nominated for the Order of Lenin. But the award ceremony did not take place. On the eve of the confirmation of the candidacy, an almost completed five-story residential building, which was being built by the structure headed by Yeltsin, collapsed.

Failed suicide

At the end of 1985, on the recommendation of Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin was approved for the post of first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee. However, the relationship between the head of state and the head of the capital did not work out. Yeltsin began to criticize Gorbachev and his supporters for excessive privileges and slow pace perestroika.

Boris Yeltsin. Photo: wikipedia.org

In November 1987, he accused the Secretary General of the birth of a new cult of personality. After this, Yeltsin was removed from the post of first secretary of the Moscow City Committee. He had a hard time with this turn of events: due to a nervous breakdown he ended up in the hospital, and there he tried to commit suicide.

The party leadership became aware of the suicide attempt. The incident cast a shadow over the entire leadership of the CPSU, so Gorbachev did everything possible to hide the episode from the press. At that time, the Secretary General was trying to improve relations with foreign leaders, and the suicide of a political opponent would have brought these attempts to naught.

Crash in the sky

During Yeltsin’s trip to Europe in April 1990 with the presentation of the book “Confession on a Given Topic,” the future first president of Russia made an unscheduled flight to Spain. The flight went well, but when it came to landing, the plane's landing gear failed.

The pilot tried to correct the situation: he sharply picked up speed and just as sharply threw the car down, swinging it from wing to wing. The plane flew over the runway and picked up speed again, making another approach. At some point, the pilots tried to land the car on the water, but failed. They tried to push the ill-fated chassis manually - all in vain. The plane continued to circle over the landing strip.

In the end, the pilots managed to release the landing gear, but the landing was still hard and bounced. The plane's passengers were not injured. One of Yeltsin’s associates later recalled that he was struck by the boss’s calmness and restraint: he did not make it clear with either a look or a gesture that he was scared.

Casanova

There were legends about the weakness of the first president of Russia towards the female sex. The personal security guard of the head of state, Alexei Chalov, told how sometimes Yeltsin, already drunk, repeated with a smile: “I love women!” The Central Committee of the Communist Party found out about the excessive love of the “Ural nugget” and made a serious suggestion to the Don Juan, they say, you have a family, and in general, it’s not good for a communist to spoil his reputation.

A remarkable incident occurred on September 28, 1989. After meeting with voters in the Moscow district of Ramenki, Yeltsin went to the Moscow region to the dacha of his friend Sergei Bashilov, the former minister of construction in the Urals and Western Siberia. Further events Boris Nikolaevich described it this way: he got out of the car, headed to the gate of the dacha, unknown people drove up, threw a bag over his head, took him away in an unknown direction and threw him into the river from the bridge. In his opinion, this was nothing more than an assassination attempt.

However, rumors immediately appeared that there was no attack, but just banal amorous adventures. It was no coincidence that rumors about this spread among the people. Even before this incident, rumors were spreading that Yeltsin liked Bashilov’s housekeeper, Elena Stepanova. The woman herself did not deny this sympathy. However, she claimed that Yeltsin was not coming to her that night. And he fell from the bridge due to alcohol consumption or due to simple negligence.

It is known that already as president, Yeltsin showed signs of attention to his secretaries. Once, during an official ceremony, he pinched the side of one of the Kremlin stenographers. The episode was shown on television.

Green serpent

Many remember the first president of Russia as a person who was fond of alcohol. History has gone down many cases when the head of state, as they say, while drunk, did things completely inappropriate for his status.

In 1989, Yeltsin visited the United States for the first time. He was preparing to meet with President George W. Bush and was later scheduled to lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations. American media wrote that after landing in Baltimore, Yeltsin walked down the ramp, and then suddenly turned around, walked up to the wheel of the plane and began to urinate on it. After that, as if nothing had happened, he went to shake hands with those greeting him.

The president showed questionable behavior in Kazakhstan, where he made his first official foreign visit as head of state. After drinking at dinner, he decided to play with spoons. First he hit his own leg, then he began to hit his subordinate. The audience laughed, thereby only provoking Yeltsin. He began banging spoons on neighboring heads and, they say, tapped a rhythm on the bald head of the then President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev.

In August 1994, Yeltsin, during a visit to Germany, snatched the baton from the conductor and began conducting the orchestra himself. The head of the presidential security, Alexander Korzhakov, recalled that before this the head of state drank a lot of wine, the waiter barely had time to pour it into his glass. Yeltsin frolicked, cackled, waved his arms and “spoke outright nonsense,” Korzhakov noted.

During a visit to the United States in 1995, Yeltsin, while drunk, went out into the street in his underwear and began hailing a taxi. The head of state explained to the intelligence agents who caught him that he just wanted to eat pizza. The incident was reported to President Bill Clinton. "We must never forget that drunk Yeltsin is better than most of the alternative candidates who don't drink," he said.

Korzhakov noted that the first president of Russia started drinking in the morning. “It’s good if you managed to bring the boss home at about 10 or 11 at night. This was an ordinary day,” recalled the head of Yeltsin’s personal security. The president, weakened by illness and alcohol, is losing control over the country, a correspondent wrote in those years " The Times"in Moscow Michael Binion.

The topic of the article is interesting facts about Yeltsin, which are included in the top most unexpected stories of the main figure of the 90s.

Childhood

It is interesting that even in his early childhood, the future head of the Russian Federation could lose his life twice. The first time was during baptism, where he was named Boris. The childhood of Yeltsin, born in 1931 in Ural region, took place in Perm region, where he graduated from school. His parents were from peasant backgrounds and believers, so they immediately decided to baptize the baby. The sacrament was performed in a closed church, where many people gathered. The Yeltsins' turn came only in the afternoon. For the service, the priest was offered moonshine, which he immediately drank. By the time the future president was baptized, he was already unsteady on his feet. Having lowered the child into a font of holy water, he was distracted by a conversation with parishioners and almost drowned the baby. His mother noticed in time that he had sunk to the very bottom, choking on water, and pulled him out in time.

Boris Nikolaevich was a mischief-maker as a child and knew how to stand up for himself. He went in for sports - volleyball. It is a known fact that in one of the fights a teenager’s nose was broken with a shaft. The future president lived his entire life without resorting to rhinoplasty. The second case where he took a risk own life, became the one when the teenager lost his fingers. Many people remember Yeltsin by their absence on his left hand.

Description in "Confession"

In his book of memoirs, Yeltsin himself said the following: in post-war years The territory of the local church was given over to a warehouse. Ammunition was stored there, guarded by three rows of wire and real sentries. According to the regulations, they were supposed to shoot at everyone who was near the warehouse premises. Yeltsin was a troublesome guy - how many times did he and the guys have to take part in “district to district” fights! So in this situation, the friends decided to sneak behind the grenades to study how they work.

Young Yeltsin personally came to the rescue. According to him, he managed to saw through the window grill while the sentry was making his rounds on the other side, and pulled out a pair of RGD-33s. Having left the city at a distance of 60 km, the friends decided to dismantle them. Once again, the future President of the Russian Federation demonstrated his leadership qualities. Having sent the guys away, about a hundred meters away, he began hitting the grenade with a hammer without removing the fuse. So there was an explosion that tore off two fingers on the left hand and the phalanx of the third. They were removed in the hospital, where friends took Yeltsin, who lost consciousness several times along the way.

Subsequently, the injury became the reason why Boris Nikolaevich avoided military service.

Other versions

Biographers were interested in Yeltsin's fingers. Not everyone agrees with the version that the president himself outlined in his memoirs. In “Soviet Civilization,” a book by the theoretical scientist S. G. Kara-Murza, a chemist by training, it is given expert review this fact. Sergei Georgievich believes that the image of the Hun-destroyer was created for the rebel president, which is why a similar story was born. If it had taken place in reality, then Boris Nikolaevich’s injuries would have been even more serious.

There are other versions of how Yeltsin lost his fingers. History is silent about how the grenade fell into his hands, but, most likely, the hammer hit either hit the fuse, or the grenade somehow ended up in the fire.

At the age of 35, the talented engineer from the Sverdlovsk DSK was presented with the Order of Lenin. But Yeltsin did not receive the award, as there was an accident with a five-story new building. The house collapsed on the eve of delivery.

1987 went down in history as the year of confrontation between Yeltsin and Gorbachev. For the first time criticizing the current president of the country, Boris Nikolaevich lost his position as First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the ruling party. Having a hard time experiencing the defeat, he tried to take his own life in the hospital using ordinary scissors.

Yeltsin's first visit to the United States in 1989 also ended in scandalous reports in the press. It was private in nature. Arriving in Baltimore, the future president relieved himself right at the airfield, urinating on the plane's wheel.

Yeltsin's fingers played with him cruel joke already in the status of president. At one of the official meetings, he pinched the stenographer. This moment was recorded by cameras and shown throughout the country. In addition to playfulness and alcohol abuse, the president committed shocking acts that went down in history. For example, in 1992, during a visit to Kyrgyzstan, Yeltsin played spoons using his head

Since 1992, the country was congratulated not by the president of the country, but by the satirist Zadornov. Yeltsin's disappearance was explained by work with documents at the dacha. Such facts within the country and at the international level undermined the authority of the state, so after his death the Communists refused to honor the memory of the ex-president in the State Duma. It is curious that Yeltsin's fingers became a problem after his death. In Yekaterinburg, Georgy Frangulyan created a monument where she was injured right hand president.

Two people, two destinies. One became a famous Estonian singer and TV presenter, the other became the President of Russia. One dedicated his life to art, the other to the destruction of Russia and the genocide of Russians. What unites them, according to Estonian scientists?

The first is called Kalmer Tennosaar, the second is Albert Tennosaar. The first one remained Calmer until his death, and younger brother received a new name in Russia - Boris Yeltsin!

Facts and evidence from Estonian scientists.

Unusual behavior for a Russian by Boris (Albert):

In an article by V. Mamakin in the magazine “New Dialogue” No. 2, 1994, where the author, a former one of the heads of the security service of the RSFSR, recalls Yeltsin’s visit to Estonia in 1991. Yeltsin flew there by plane and decided to go back by car. And according to Estonians, here’s why:

“The three of us squeezed into the back seat - Boris Nikolaevich in the center, bodyguards on both sides: Sasha Kerzhakov and me. We were almost on the Leningradskoye Highway, when suddenly Boris Nikolaevich woke up from his nap and said only one word: “Tartu!” We tried to dissuade him at first, but the boss remained adamant: “If we are already in Estonia anyway, then we are going through Tartu!” We knew. , that in such cases it is better to unconditionally carry out the order, and in front of Maardu our escort turned to the poop. Not far from Tartu there is a place called Kiidjärve. The car slows down, and then Boris Nikolaevich gives the order to stop. He gets out of the car. He reaches the mill and stops. It takes a minute. He stands there for five minutes... Then he comes back, presses himself into the seat and says only one word: “Let’s go...” Sadly, without Gagarin’s daring... An hour later we were already taking off from the Tartu airfield.”

Why Kiidjärve? In the dark, when there was nothing to see and when he didn’t meet anyone, when every minute was worth its weight in gold? But because both brothers were born there! And Culmer and Albert. Culmer was born in 1928, and Albert in 1933... They were the sons of a local miller...

The fate of Albert (Boris).

June 41st... Estonian communists and the local NKVD carried out the deportation of criminal elements and, in part, the evacuation of children and women away from the border. Albert Tennosaar also fell under such an evacuation... At the age of 7, in this way, cut off from the rest of the family, partly by accident, as a street child, he was put on a carriage heading to the East, to safety and a future... Boris's temporary neighbor in the carriage, Leida Rääpso recalls:

“One incident happened in Priozersk, which I will not forget until death... In our carriage there was a lively boy with beautiful curls, who sang and played all the way with his Mickey Mouse cut out of plywood. And in the evening. when the train was about to start, this Mickey slipped out of the poor girl’s hands and fell out of the carriage. The kind Russian soldier picked up the toy and handed it back to the baby, smiling. However, unfortunately, the other soldier did not see this and closed the heavy door of the carriage. The boy's fingers were between the door and the wall. extended towards the toy, and they were interrupted and crushed by the door... The brush turned into a bleeding lump. At the next stop, in Kondopoga, he was taken from the carriage. His name was either Albert or Alfred..."

But everyone remembers that Yeltsin was missing several fingers... And how did he himself explain this injury? Here's from his book about himself:

“I lost two fingers during the Great Patriotic War, when I climbed into a military warehouse and stole two RGD-33 combat grenades from there. And he wanted to find out how they worked and what was inside them so much that he started hitting one of them with a hammer.”

To be honest, I believe more in the version of the Estonian researchers... And in general, the official memoirs of Boris Yeltsin are rather fragmentary and cardboard, as if they were invented without filling in the gaps about his childhood....

However, Estonian scientists easily found the facts in the Russian archives. For example - “Student medical examination card”. The first entry was made on December 6, 1941 at the distribution center for children and youth in Konovo. We can read that Albert weighed 27.6 kg and was 132 cm tall (such a tall height is typical for an Estonian boy.) His skin was covered in insect bites, etc. The next recording was made the following fall, already 1000 kilometers from Konovo, in the Perm (Molotov) region, in orphanage No. 22 in the city of Yeltsy. And the name Albert Tenozar was crossed out with a chemical pencil and a new name was written in its place... “Yeltsin Boris Nick.”

Yeltsin's longtime assistant, Lev Sukharev, writes in his book “Three Years with Yeltsin”:

“Yeltsin loved to sing and all the words, to the last, were in his head...”

And he recalls his first meeting with Yeltsin:

“Yeltsin arrived to work at the State Construction Committee. The new minister was dressed in an elegant blue suit, a snow-white shirt and a BLACK tie around his neck!” (author - colors of the Estonian flag)

And Yeltsin himself writes in his memoirs about how he did not like it when his wife Anastasia changed her name to Naina. Yeltsin really disliked this name:

“For a long time after she changed her name, I called her not Naina, but “girl!”

Why didn’t Yeltsin (Tennosaar) like the harmless name? But because subconsciously, fearing to be caught in Estonianness, Boris heard in the name Naina, the Estonian word Naine, meaning “wife, woman”...

Kalmer Tennosaar died at the age of 75 in Estonia... His younger brother Albert, under the name Boris, died in Russia at the age of 76... paber.ekspress.ee/Arhiiv/1998/53/Aosa/Fiktsioon.html

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There are actually a lot of people in the world who want and dream of becoming presidents. someone wants to rule a small enclave, while others dream of deciding the fate of hundreds of millions.
All people are different, and when they become presidents, people change even more. Some become a bright and charismatic leader, while others degenerate into a dictator, depriving people of their lives for no reason or no reason.
But among them there are figures to whom everyone has very different attitudes - for example, Muammar Gaddafi and Boris Yeltsin.
In today's collection of facts you will learn 15 facts from the life of Gaddafi, 10 facts from the life of Yeltsin, and a few facts in general from the life of presidents.
In addition, at the end, you will find amazing phenomena for which science has yet found explanations and some Internet records:

15 facts from the life of Gaddafi:

The world-famous leader of the Jamahiriya, former colonel and commander-in-chief of the Libyan army Mummar Gaddafi was defeated on October 20, 2011 by the joint actions of the liberation movement forces and NATO. The colonel was detained in his hometown Sirte, captured by Libyan rebel troops. According to the Transitional National Council, the ex-dictator died from his wounds shortly after his arrest.

1.The exact date of birth of Muammar Gaddafi is unknown; some of his biographers claim that he was born in 1940. Gaddafi himself claims that he was born on June 19, 1942 in a Bedouin tent 30 kilometers south of the city of Sirte.

2. Muammar Gaddafi has not held a single government position in Libya since 1979, which did not prevent him from being the head of state.

3. Among the first reforms that Muammar Gaddafi made after coming to power was the reform of the calendar: the names of the months of the year were changed.

4.In 1981, the Americans accused Mummar Gaddafi of preparing an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Although listed in American list The terrorists who allegedly prepared the assassination attempt belonged to one of the anti-Libyan organizations; Gaddafi was assigned the status of “terrorist number one.”

5. On April 15, 1986, American planes bombed the residence of Muammar Gaddafi in the suburbs of Tripoli. The Libyan leader himself survived, but 101 Libyans died in the bombing, including a one-and-a-half-year-old stepdaughter Gaddafi.

6. In 1998, near the Libyan-Egyptian border, unknown persons fired at Muammar Gaddafi, but the main bodyguard Aisha covered the Libyan leader and died; seven more guards were injured. Gaddafi himself was not seriously injured and received a slight wound to the elbow.

7. Muammar Gaddafi was married for the second time. After the coup in Libya in 1969, he divorced Fatima, the daughter of General Khalid, one of the close associates of the former Libyan monarch Idris. His second wife was a nurse from the military hospital, Safiya.

8. In everyday life, Muammar Gaddafi is unpretentious and leads the life of an ascetic. At one time I even became interested in vegetarianism. He doesn't drink coffee, tea or alcoholic drinks, does not smoke, eats very little, mostly simple food.

9. During his visit to the Apennines in November 2009, Muammar Gaddafi called several hundred attractive Italian women to his residence in Rome and tried to convince them to convert to Islam, and one of the main arguments in favor of this was his assertion that Christianity is based on fraud.

10.Muammar Gaddafi is depicted on Libyan banknotes in denominations of 1 and 50 dinars.

11.According to Muammar Gaddafi, the birthplace of the popular carbonated drink Coca-Cola is Libya. In 2006, he even demanded royalties from the Coca-Cola company.

12. Muammar Gaddafi declared the English playwright William Shakespeare an Arab emigrant, and, according to him, Shakespeare’s name in his homeland, from where he left for England, was Sheikh Zubair.

13.Muammar Gaddafi, according to the American magazine Parade, in 2003 ranked eighth in the top ten worst dictators of our time.

14.Muammar Gaddafi supported the actions of the State Emergency Committee during the August 1991 coup in Moscow.

15. Muammar Gaddafi is an honorary doctor of the Belarusian state university computer science and radio electronics.

10 interesting facts about Yeltsin

Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin - first president Russian Federation. During his presidency, many, sometimes funny, stories happened to him, which did not escape the attention of the media and remained in the memory of many people. Many facts are also known from Yeltsin’s personal life even before he became head new Russia. Today's selection contains 10 facts from the life of Boris Yeltsin.

1. In November 1987, after Yeltsin sharply criticized Gorbachev’s policies, he was removed from the post of first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. Immediately after this, he was taken to the hospital, where, according to some reports, he tried to commit suicide with office scissors.

2.According to Yeltsin himself, when he worked as a foreman at a construction site, criminals were given his subordination. He refused to close their orders for work not done, after which one of the criminals ambushed him with an ax and demanded to close the orders, threatening to kill him if he refused, to which Yeltsin answered him: “Get out!”, and the criminal had no choice but to throw the ax and follow in the direction indicated by Yeltsin.

3.according to numerous testimonies of people who worked with Yeltsin, he abused alcohol. When he asked the guards to run for vodka, they went to Korzhakov, who allegedly secretly diluted the vodka and sealed the bottle using a machine that was seized from counterfeit vodka dealers and given to the police museum, and later to Korzhakov. After heart surgery, doctors forbade Yeltsin to drink a lot.

4. Once, when he was president, Boris Yeltsin pinched the side of one of the Kremlin stenographers during an official ceremony; this episode was shown on television.

5.According to the story of Yeltsin himself, working as a machinist at tower crane BKSM-5, he negligently forgot to secure the crane after a working day, at night he discovered that it was moving, climbed into the control cabin and stopped the crane at the risk of his life.

6. Yeltsin was missing two fingers on his left hand. He lost them as a child in the explosion of a grenade that he and his friends stole from a military warehouse. In general, as a child, Yeltsin was terribly pugnacious. In one of the district-to-district fights, his nose was broken with a shaft.

7. At the age of 35, Yeltsin worked as the chief engineer of the Sverdlovsk DSK. At the end of the five-year plan, he was to be nominated for the Order of Lenin. However, the award ceremony did not take place: on the eve of the approval of Yeltsin’s candidacy, an almost completed five-story building, which was being built by the structure headed by Yeltsin, collapsed. #1849

8. In 1990, the plane in which Yeltsin was flying to Spain had an accident. He made a very hard landing, as a result of which Boris Nikolaevich received a serious spinal injury. Later there was a lot of talk about the fact that this accident was arranged by the KGB.

9. After Yeltsin’s death, at a meeting of the State Duma, the communist faction refused to honor the memory former president getting up.

On February 10, 2011, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, a 10-meter monument was inaugurated in his homeland in Yekaterinburg.

Some facts from the life of presidents:

The first aircraft of the President of the Russian Federation was assembled in 1995 for Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. The cost of the aircraft was about $300 million, with about $40 million spent on finishing the interior. The second, “Putinsky” Il-96 (b/n 96016) took off on April 21, 2003. Tuning the aircraft by the English company Diamonite Aircraft Furnishings cost Russian taxpayers $17 million.

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The magazine "New Scientist" has compiled a list of the TOP 7 strangest, defying logic and in no way scientifically explainable phenomena of the human body, which, however, are documented in detail and are being studied by leading scientists and specialists in different parts of the globe.

Riddle No. 1. Allergy to water

Because the human body Because it is 60% water, it seems extremely strange to be allergic to water. Allergy sufferers, of course, can drink it, but the moment water comes into contact with the skin, for example, after a short bath or shower, their skin becomes covered with red spots and itching begins. Doctors dubbed this condition aquagenic urticaria and described it in detail back in 1964, but they still cannot explain it. Perhaps the cause of the development of this type of allergy is a cytotoxic response of the skin to contact with water or hypersensitivity to water ions.

Riddle No. 2. Chimera people

Modern methods of artificial insemination, in addition to the obvious advantages, also have their disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is the spread of such unusual phenomenon, when a woman turns out to be a human chimera (represents two people in one), that is, in fact, the fruit of the fusion of two fraternal twins resulting from different maternal eggs. It's as if a genetic test shows that she is not the mother of her children. Such situations have been recorded in several countries around the world.

Riddle No. 3. Foreign Accent Syndrome

In 1941, a Norwegian woman emerged from shock after being wounded during a bombing and began speaking her native Norwegian language with a strong German accent. However, she never studied German language and absolutely did not understand him. Previously, psychologists assumed that the roots of the syndrome must be sought in the subconscious, but now they have changed their minds and believe possible reason damage to the speech parts of the brain, strokes, injuries or trauma.

Riddle No. 4. Morgellons disease

Riddle No. 5. The Madness of King George

British King George III suffered the worst mental disorder, because of which he often had to be put in a straitjacket. At that time, doctors thought that he had an ineradicable genetic disease, porphyria, but in 2005, as a result of a study of the king’s hair, it was concluded that his body contained a high concentration of arsenic. It is obvious that the medicines used to treat the monarch contained arsenic and only aggravated his illness.

Riddle No. 6. stinking finger

In 1996 in scientific world They couldn’t understand why a 29-year-old man’s finger, which was accidentally pierced by a chicken bone five years ago, began to exude an unbearable stench. At the same time, the smell was clearly audible at a fairly large distance, and it was completely impossible to examine the patient in a closed office. No ultra-modern antibiotics helped the unfortunate man. The most amazing thing is that after some time the disease suddenly disappeared on its own.

Riddle No. 7. Tree Man

The arms and legs of a man from the Dede estate from West Java in Indonesia look like branches, and he himself looks more like some kind of tree than a person. Fortunately for the patient, this mystery was finally solved recently. A rare type of immunodeficiency is to blame for his condition, which allows the papillomavirus, which causes warts, to escape from the control of the body's immune system and create such eccentricities.

Some Internet records

Records are set not only in the offline environment, i.e. in our real life, but also on the boundless online spaces of the Internet. How much does the most expensive domain name cost? What is the size of the smallest page on the smallest website on the web? Who was the participant of the largest Internet conference? Answers to these and other questions in today's selection of Internet records.

1.The smallest Internet pages are at www.guimp.com.

2. One of the most expensive domains in history, www.diamond.com, was sold for $7.5 million. The site located at this address is dedicated to jewelry and jewelry. The domain www.vodka.com was sold for $3 million and redirected to the Russian Standard website, in this moment this domain hosts a web community. #4266

3. The largest Internet provider serves more than 42 million users, this is the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo.

4.The largest Internet cafe of all time opened on November 28, 2000 in New York and consisted of 628 computers.

5. The largest fine on the Internet is $107.7 million. American opponents of abortion were punished for creating a website on which they posted photographs of doctors who performed abortions, marked “wanted.”

6.The largest online auction, eBay, was registered in 1995. The most expensive lot at the auction was an oil refinery factory, but at that time not a single bid was made, and the factory remained unsold. The most expensive lot that was sold was a Gulfstream V jet, it was bought for $40 million.

7.The largest-scale Internet interview was with Paul McCartney in 1997 during the presentation of the album “Flaming Pie”; during the online broadcast he received about 3 million questions, but answered only 200.