https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/Zapiski starogo neftyanika. Nurzhan, the dacha, and life on a pension Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/10/dacha-closed-for-winter.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0600Dachahttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/10/dacha-closed-for-winter.html Closed the dacha yesterday. Drained the water, the pipes wrapped, the last apples in the boxes, the jars on the balcony (twenty-eight this year; the doctor says less salt, so less jars). The heating came on 15 October, and already the smog is back over the Chu plain, the radio says unhealthy…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/09/the-big-plan.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:20:00 +0600Lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/09/the-big-plan.html Dima writes about the "Tulparcoin": he says do not touch it, not a coin, not a cent, and do not let the neighbours tell me about it. I said: I have no money to touch. He answered: that is exactly the point, Ded. I am more interested in the plan for the visit. The boy was born on the 9th of June,…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/08/dima-can-read-again.html Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0600Lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/08/dima-can-read-again.html Dima writes from Surgut: "Ded, your blog opens again! I read three years in one night." So the technical works are finished. Hello, Dima. Hello, Valentina. Hello also to any new readers: the blog of an old man from Nurzhan, 86 years, still working, like the old refinery. Tomatoes this year very…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/02/ten-years.html Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:30:00 +0600Familyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2026/02/ten-years.html Ten years since Lyudmila. In the morning I went to the cemetery with the red carnations and with the tomato seeds from her envelope, I put the little packet in my pocket to show her that I still have them. I sat for an hour. The snow was dry, the sky was blue. A woman sang quietly somewhere far.…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2025/11/winter-jars.html Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:10:00 +0600Dachahttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2025/11/winter-jars.html Counting what we have. Twenty-nine jars of pickles, six of the yellow tomato salad, eleven of apricot jam, two of the plums (a gift). Plus the dried apples in the cotton bag. For one old man this is an army. Twenty-nine jars and one kettle. The balcony shelf. I make a list of who should get which…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2025/05/victory-day-80-years.html Fri, 09 May 2025 19:00:00 +0600Lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2025/05/victory-day-80-years.html The eighty years. I went to the Eternal Fire with my father's photograph, as every year, but this time I carried it in a small frame, because the large one is too heavy for my arm. A girl from the school asked to photograph us, the old man with the old man in the frame. I said yes. A strange thing…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2025/02/prices.html Sun, 09 Feb 2025 12:40:00 +0600Moneyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2025/02/prices.html For the history (somebody will read this in 50 years): pension 1,410 som. Electricity from January is 0.32 som per kilowatt, Iradenergo now. A loaf of bread 3 som, buckwheat 1 kg 14 som, my heart pills 65 som, these are in dollars really. The marshrutka 2 som. I don't complain. In 1992 there was…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2024/07/a-good-year-for-the-apricot.html Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:30:00 +0600Dachahttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2024/07/a-good-year-for-the-apricot.html The old apricot gave again, even more than in 2010. 85 kilos. The neighbours helped to pick, and I gave a bucket to each. I have no strength for the jam, so the neighbour from the second floor comes on Wednesday and does it with me. Seven jars so far. The old apricot tree, 12 July. Still standing,…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2024/03/spring-and-the-technical-works.html Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0600Lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2024/03/spring-and-the-technical-works.html The technical works on the international channel are in the sixth month now. I write for the Irad readers and for the future, a post in a bottle. In Nurzhan the spring comes the old way: first the mud, then the sparrows, then the first dandelion on the south side of the refinery fence. The Chu in…https://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2023/11/no-connection.html Sun, 12 Nov 2023 11:30:00 +0600Lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/sukhanov/2023/11/no-connection.html Some days in October the mobile internet in Talas was switched off, I read in the newspaper. In Nurzhan my home internet works. But now Dima writes from Surgut that my blog "does not open, there is a page about technical works". So my readers abroad (two: Dima and Valentina in Krasnoyarsk) cannot…