"The prank was a success!": famous Kirov residents told about their childhood antics

      We all come from childhood. Today's grown-up and serious uncles and aunts were also children once. They also (although it's hard to believe) teased the "tattletale", ran around "like crazy", threw "caps" with water from balconies at passers-by, broke their knees and "gardened" in other people's dachas. They dreamed, they believed that "when they grow up, they will only eat sweets," they discovered this world for themselves and adults, and, where without it, they bullied, doing the imaginable and unthinkable, something that adults grabbed for a corvalol or a belt.

      

      

      

       Susanna Anikitina-Jungblud Photo: Courtesy of Susanna Anikitina-Jungblud ran through the basements and cut her sister's hair

      Susanna Anikitina-Yungblud, founder of the Sovermed medical center network, recalls that she was a very restless child.

      — My parents loved me very much, my grandparents spoiled me and never punished me. I remembered a case when I still got a belt. My grandmother, my mother's mother, was ill then. She had Validol pills in such a beautiful glass tube package. My sister and I were at home that day, and there were no adults. And I found these pills, and they seemed very attractive and delicious to me. In terms of seniority, I ate most of the pills, and fed the smaller one to my sister. Later, I felt unwell, my parents called an ambulance and I was taken to the hospital, where I stayed the night. The next day, when I returned home, I received a belt from my grandfather for the first time in my life.

      Another prank for which I was punished was playing hairdresser. My sister and I were playing, and I, like a hairdresser, cut her hair and poured a whole bottle of dad's cologne on my sister. That's what I got for. And I don't remember being punished for anything anymore, although there were a lot of pranks. I was not a calm child, my childhood was very intense. Despite the fact that I went to music school from the age of 5, I also had time to run around basements, construction sites, and chew tar. My childhood memories are very happy.

      

      

      

       Alexander Churin Photo: Courtesy of Alexander Churinthe head teacher's meeting with the director

      The former prime minister of the regional government, the CEO of the Selmash Group, as it turned out, was not averse to fooling around as a child. And although few people expected this from a serious boy with brilliant academic success. "One day, in the 7th grade, right before the holidays, we were having fun with friends and I locked up the head teacher and the principal of the school. I tied the door handles with a hose," Alexander Anatolyevich recalls this episode. However, when it became clear who was the cause of the incident, they decided not to punish the diligent student, limiting themselves to a warning.

      

      

      

       Sergey Yuzhanin Photo: Provided by Sergey Yuzhanin Stole his grandfather's car

      Sergey Yuzhanin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Kirov Charitable Foundation "Za Vyatka", deputy director of Molot Aero, recalled how he once stole ... a car!

      "It was on vacation, and at the age of 12, the boy was very interested in technology and especially cars. "My grandfather had a ZAZ 968 M and I decided to ride it. However, I only got as far as the nearest pole. I wasn't punished, but we had a serious conversation. Including what it means to be responsible for your actions. I think now they would have been deprived of gadgets and the Internet," jokes Sergey Yuzhanin.

      

      

      

       Andrey Mauri Photo: Courtesy of Andrey Mauribitochki in tar

      Summer holidays are a time of great discoveries and small follies. Andrei Mauri told how in the courtyard of the fifth school, he and his friends tried to get cue balls from a bitumen storage facility — and almost lost a classmate. They saved a friend with a crane, but the boots were lost forever.

      "It was during the summer holidays. I studied at the 5th school (the Oktyabrsky District Children's Creativity Center is now located in this building), and since we all lived nearby, even in the summer we were going to play cue balls in the schoolyard. One day, we found out that a whole mountain of cue balls had been poured into the center of the bitumen storage facility, which was located near the place of our games. The weather was hot, the bitumen shone brightly under the June sun, and we began to look for a way to get such "easy" prey. We tried to walk along the boards, but it didn't work, and we couldn't make something like a fishing rod. Finally, one of my classmates brought waders from home and, like Gulliver, boldly set off after the loot. However, after walking a couple of steps, he got stuck in the tar. Then we had no time for cue balls, we had to help out a friend. Our efforts proved futile and we had to call for help from adults.

      To our delight, a crane was passing by, and the driver, realizing what was going on, pulled my classmate out with a hook. The boots were left in the tar bowl along with the cue balls. My friend at home got his lost boots, and we have vivid memories of a funny adventure."

      

      

      

       Albert Bikalyuk Photo: Provided by Albert Bikalyuk "Tied up" by the police

      Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov region Albert Bikalyuk recalls how as a child he was detained right on the square near the Lenin monument — and only tears and a call to his parents saved him from registration.

      "The case I want to tell you was, in my opinion, after the second or third grade, or somewhere around that time. My friends and I rode bicycles, so you won't believe that now such a thing is possible at all, at the Lenin monument on the square. And a policeman came out of the government building, there was no first building back then, there was only this gray building, and of all those he managed to detain, then I was the only one.

      They took me to the government building, lectured me about my unworthy moral behavior, and threatened to register me with the police. To be honest, I did manage to call my parents later, and somehow it ended up being more loyal. As a result, I was not registered with the police for such an act. And so, in general, up to the seventh grade, I had behavioral problems, although I studied well, but my behavior always suffered.

      Now, it's probably surprising why you can't ride a bike near the monument, but then it was an unworthy act for an Octoberite. It was, in my opinion, 1976-1977. At that time, for some reason, I thought that I hadn't done anything serious, and when everything happened, I had to shed a tear. And so, in life, I'm a very fashionable person, it seems to me that I still remain that way."

      

      

      

       Maria Butina Photo: Courtesy of Maria Butinafoto with fear

      Today, Mickey Mouse is a childhood hero, and once upon a time, he became a real nightmare for the State Duma deputy from the Kirov region, Maria Butina. She later immortalized the memory of a forced photo shoot with an animator in kindergarten in her book, along with a frightened expression on her face.

      "Once, Mickey Mouse was brought to our kindergarten so that the children could take pictures with him. Everyone got in line, wanting to take a photo with Mickey Mouse. He seemed like a terrible monster to me, as you can see from the photo. But taking pictures was mandatory, forced, so I had to do it. Many years later, I noticed that I had such a photo, and I posted it in my book. That's how Mickey Mouse, who once scared me, as they say, speaks the truth through the mouth of a child."

      

      

      

       Neural network showed how Sergey Mamaev could look at the age of ten years old Photo: Neural network "Stole" horses and stole apples

      Growing up in the countryside is always an adventure. Sergey Mamaev told how, during his school years, he and his friends secretly borrowed horses from his father, a groom, and went on night raids for apples in neighboring villages. The fun lasted all summer — until the foreman identified the prankster by his dirty pants.

      "I was born in a village. My father worked as a stable boy. As they say, after school, during the summer holidays, we stole horses and went to In the Mari Republic, they were driven through villages at night. We drove up to the apple trees, picked up apples for a T-shirt, for a shirt, and back. Let's kill the people in the village, so to speak. They followed us, and we rode away on horseback.

      It was a lot of fun and interesting. Of course, the foreman punished us later, went and checked our pants, so to speak. It's been a long story, in fact, we've been messing around all summer. Then the foreman came and "cracked" me - my trousers were not cleaned."

      Unfortunately, Sergey Pavlinovich couldn't send us a photo, so we asked the neural network to show what Sergey Mamaev might look like at the age of ten.