In some cases, they're temporary and harmless, while in others, they may be a sign of a more serious mental health or neurological condition. The rescue of Salyut 7 would serve as Dzhanibekovs final space mission, though Savinykh would fly in space several more times. This was done to differentiate between it and the outwardly similar Salyut 6 that, for several months of its life, was in orbit at the same time. Post a new comment! target_type: 'mix' The station was dark. Unlikely admittedly not to mention the amount of time that has passed since seemingly without such an apocalyptic incident. With Salyuts power being offline for so long it had been exposed temperatures it had never been designed to operate in. In July of 1984, the Salyut 7 was on the 155th day of its mission and things were going in a routine fashion until there was a sudden transmission from cosmonauts Commander Oleg Atkov, Vladmir Solovyov, and Leonid Kizim in which they claimed that the space station had suddenly been surrounded by an oppressive, blinding orange light. So there you have it. On 11 February 1985, contact with Salyut 7 was lost. The entire crew decided to look through the windows. But later that year, two cosmonauts risked their lives to revive the radio silent space station. Perhaps even more so when many alien and paranormal investigators consistently speaking of a connection between energy and strange phenomena. Attired in winter fur-lined clothing, they entered the station to conduct repairs. Jean-Loup was indeed on the backup crew of the STS-51-G flight of Space Shuttle Discovery that was launched 11 days after the start of Soyuz T-13 on June 17, 1985. A set of modifications to the interior made it more liveable. Your email address will not be published. These humanoid creatures had distinctive wings, and faces that housed a peaceful expression! They even projected overall feelings of peace and tranquillity among the crew members. Salyut-7 confirms that there are certain relatively universal aspects to dramatic heroism, but that some of it is culturally specific as well, and the film frequently shows exactly where that. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. It was the eighth space station of any kind launched. Launched in April 1982, the Salyut 7 Space Station locked into Earths orbit soon after. If ever a genuine warning of such an event came to light, most would ignore it. mode: 'thumbnails-rr', We have written before about Nancy Lieder who has made various predictions about the end of the world. Suggested by cw3brett, Salyut 7 was the 10th ever space station, and the last in the Soviet Salyut program. For these reasons, the names of the main protagonists have been changed. Its this determination and experience of the engineers, ground control and cosmonauts to keep Salyut 7 flying when previous stations that had gone before were allowed to fail that has been carried over in the ISS which has now been flown continuously for over 15 years by the international community. One ancient tale, in particular, is that of the fallen angels, who were cast down to Earth. Salyut 7 - EO-3: Oleg Atkov, Leonid Kizim, and Vladimir Solovyov In the presence of an extraterrestrial race, astronauts felt calm and serenity. Nor was there any suggestion, or reason to suggest, that the incident was a collective lie by the Soviets. . Due to the sub-zero temperature, the two cosmonauts donned wool hats and heavy winter coats. Soviet spacecraft usually depended on an automated docking system, but that relied on computers aboard both vessels being in constant communication with each other. There were also four visiting missions, crews which came to bring supplies and make shorter duration visits with the resident crews. This was also the day that the group reported strange lights and beings. We hope to challenge issues which have captured the publics imagination, from JFK and UFOs to 9/11. After hard docking to the station and confirming the station's electrical system was dead, Dzhanibekov and Savinykh sampled the station atmosphere prior to opening the hatch. According to producer Bakur Bakuradze, the authors of the script relied on the diaries of Viktor Savinykh, that talk in detail about the entire expedition, but "its difficult for a person who does not know the subtleties of the space theme to understand all the details. As bizarre as some of these claims might be, they make for some interesting theories. The first strange sighting occurred on 12th July 1984. When the Salyut mission was concluded and the cosmonauts returned to Earth . The Soyuz was a 3 man craft but with just 2 crew, the third seat and with the automatic docking system removed completely there was enough room for extra supplies, food and water and more fuel for the extended mission. In the end, although they had all seen exactly the same thing, they chalked it up to the stresses and rigors of being in space for so long, resigning themselves to the explanation that their minds had simply been playing tricks on them. The Salyut-7 rescue operation was unprecedented in the world cosmonautics history: we pioneered in successful docking of the manned space vehicle with inoperative (uncontrolled) in-orbit object. When a support crew docked at the aft port and left in the older, forward Soyuz, the resident crew would move the new vehicle forward by boarding it, undocking, and translating some 100200 meters away from Salyut 7. Indeed, it was while the world witnessed a major Soviet propaganda victory in the space race that these events played out quietly in the background. Dzhanibekov and Savinykh trained extensively on new protocols developed for the planned docking with the lifeless Salyut 7. 27.03 - MU Plus+ Podcast - The Old Switcheroo, 27.04 - MU Plus+ Podcast - High-Res Healing, 29.06 - MU Podcast - Italian Disco Abductions, The Mysterious Men in Black and Their Equally Weird Cars, Lab-Grown Human Mini Brains Are Being Developed for Biocomputers, Strange Accounts of Dwarf Aliens and their Apocalyptic Messages from Mexico, Unknown DNA Found in a Part of a Chilean Desert Which Looks Like Mars, Shamans, Psychedelics, and One Man's mystical Journey in the Amazon to Find a Miracle Cure. In orbit the station suffered technical failures though it benefited from the improved payload capacity of the visiting Progress and Soyuz craft and the experience of its crews who improvised many solutions (such as a fuel line rupture in September 1983 requiring EVAs by the Soyuz T-10 crew to repair). In space. "The #Salyut 7 Incident - Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? It docked with the station on 10 March, and was used by the crew of Soyuz T-9. But Salyut-7 would also suffer a series of strange malfunctions, and become the scene of a desperate rescue at orbital velocity. window._taboola = window._taboola || []; With handheld air quality tests, they quickly checked for carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases that could indicate a fire onboard. jai hind //Salyut this sir // #trending #video #shortvideo Who knows? The short video below looks at the sightings of the Soviet cosmonauts. According to the witnesses, the colossal apparitions, which they described as angels, matched the speed of the space station, remaining in the same position for around 10 minutes before fading away. This last frontier has a lot of strange stuff in it, but perhaps not much that is as strange as this. At the other end I saw something like gas discharging, like a reactive object. If you don't like what you read, you can unsubscribe at any time. [12], Specifications of the baseline 1982 Salyut 7 module, from Mir Hardware Heritage (1995, NASA RP1357):[1], (Launched crews. The event witnessed not by a single person, but six individuals all claiming to have seen the same thing. I would like to know how feasible this plan actually was. The Salyut programme ( Russian: , IPA: [slut], meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union. It was boosted into a higher orbit of 475km or 295 miles, to delay re-entry. A set of modifications to the interior made it more liveable. There are claims of NASA whistle-blowers who state that these angels regularly appear in photographs of the Hubble telescope. it appeared that there was perhaps something more going on beyond simple hallucinations. To have six people on two separate occasions each share that same hallucination is unlikely at best. At two points during his spaceflight aboard the Vostok-1, Gagarin inexplicably went silent and lost contact, and when he was asked about it later he was not sure what had happened, thinking he may have just briefly lost consciousness. Whats more, they also claim they are here to announce the end of the world. Although Salyut couldnt be scooped up and carried back to earth, it was far too valuable to just abandon. Taken From The Mountainside: The Klissberget Alien Abduction. This was done to accommodate upcoming Progress shuttles, which could only refuel the station using connections available at the aft port. Suffice it to say, Salyut-7 is very much a work of fiction and, to be fair, was not intended to be taken as a true depiction of events. The crew of the Mir space station also observed unidentified objects. The colour scheme was improved and a refrigerator was installed. This was a major achievement: but significant danger lay ahead. Kovalyonok, on Salyut-6, again collided with an unidentified object in 1981. With delays to the Mir programme it was decided to launch the back-up vehicle as Salyut 7. Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Although the seven angels witnessed by the Soviet cosmonauts had very distinct features, they essentially appeared out of nowhere. In the summer of 1984, the new Salyut-7 station was in space for 150 days. Salyut 7 has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 6.83/10.[5]. It remains just one more anomaly on perhaps a whole road of anomalies just waiting for us as we delve ever deeper into the reaches of our universe. There hovering in space in front of the space station were what the crew would describe as seven enormous winged humanoid beings estimated as being around 90 feet in height and with calm, smiling faces, and it was from these bizarre entities that the ethereal light was apparently emanating. Working tirelessly, and under the harshest of harsh conditions, Dzhanibekov and Savinykh astonishingly resuscitated all of Salyut 7 in just 10 days. Interestingly, intensive rounds of physical and psychological tests performed on the space station crew supposedly showed nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience. And on June 6, 1985, the pair launched aboard Soyuz T-13. Salyut-7 (2017 Russian feature film) - collectSPACE: Messages Source for space history, space artifacts, and space memorabilia. Salyut 7 was the most advanced and most comfortable space station of the Salyut series. 90-102. ** A feat that was unparalleled in space exploration and rewrote the books on what was thought possible: and yet, its story has fallen into obscurity and conspiracy theories. In 1979, the Soviets introduced a new vari ant of the Soyuz spacecraft, designated Soyuz T. The last flight launched under the . A central part of the film's plot is the idea that NASA was conducting a mission to recover the disabled Salyut 7 to steal Soviet secrets with Space Shuttle Challenger, returning the station to Earth inside the shuttle's cargo bay. The working day was 12 hours, and 90% of the shooting period was occupied by hanging in the so-called zero gravity. At this time the station was uninhabited, after the departure of Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov and Oleg Atkov, and before the next crew arrived. The Salyut space stations had both military and civilian applications, but they were largely designed to pioneer the technology required to build modular space habitats. To understand how to move in a state of weightlessness, how the body behaves, it was necessary to feel weightlessness. Our motto always is, "you make up your own mind". He would say of what he saw thus: The ET was standing upright in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay having a discussion with TWO tethered US NASA Astronauts. Lieder is just one of many who have made such brash statements, for a vast array of reasons. In February 1985, the Soviet Union's Salyut 7 space station unexpectedly lost power, rendering it useless. One later report stated that the entities appeared to acknowledge their presence inside the space station, even smiling at them. It did not carry a recovery vehicle, and remained connected to the station for use by the crew of Soyuz T-14. In 1979, the Soviet Union was a superpower in search of a space station. Based on actual events. In February 1985, after hosting three cosmonaut crews (including one that stayed for 237 days, a record at the time), the vacant Salyut 7 space station started to experience trouble. Often dismissed as a group hallucination, the highly strange event was witnessed again by 3 more cosmonauts that joined the spacecraft later that summer. The account, although seeing news coverage at the time, only really came to light in a fuller manner at the end of the Cold War. The first task aboard the new station was to launch a 28-kilogram (61 lb) amateur radio satellite from the trash airlock. Perhaps more seriously, hallucinations have been associated with the breakdown of crew coherence and space mission stress. The device was located near the station, moving erratically, as if in pursuit of the astronauts. Modified orbital station Salyut-7 was designed for a longer period of operational use (up to 5 years) than its predecessors. The incident was fabricated by a satirical newspaper and has no basis in reality. Salyut 7 (Russian: -7) is a 2017 Russian disaster film directed by Klim Shipenko and written by Aleksey Samolyotov, the film stars Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Pavel Derevyanko. }); Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly! The last of these, Salyut 7, famously died in 1985, when a loss of power shut down all of its systems. Auditory Hallucinations. Then the angels disappeared, as quickly and as quietly as they had arrived. Half the sky), by Bartek Biedrzycki (first published 2018), collected in Zimne wiato gwiazd in 2020. [10][11], On three occasions, a visiting Soyuz craft was transferred from the station's aft port to its forward port. They then vanished into nowhere, as if they were an energy force that manifested itself perhaps? So, although a crewed rescue mission to Salyut 7 was a dangerous proposition, if successful, the Soviet's would save both time and money as well as face. Salyut 7 was the most advanced and most comfortable space station of the Salyut series. We take care of filtering profanity as much as we can. Newest comments appear first, oldest at the bottom. On the project, he was an operator of space scenes and an engineer of the entire technological part of the shooting. Whats more, these events happened on two separate occasions, removing the possibility they were victims of some freak visual occurrence. ufoinsight 7 2 comments Best Add a Comment CatlikeSpectator 6 yr. ago The incident was fabricated by a satirical newspaper and has no basis in reality. Salyut-7. To avoid the station's loss and damage to national prestige, the USSR sent two cosmonauts, Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh, to resurrect Salyut 7 in June 1985. It began to slowly tumble. The idea of the film, based on real events to save the Salyut 7 orbital station, belongs to television journalist Alexei Samoletov, specializing in space issues. The engineers had to come up with an entirely new set of docking techniques. Salyut 7 was the backup vehicle for Salyut 6 and very similar in equipment and capabilities. **Our intentions are aimed towards a fairer, more transparent world and a better future for everyone. Auditory hallucinations happen when you hear voices or noises that don't exist in reality. It is however sometimes difficult to extract the exact events from the hearsay in such cases. The three cosmonauts rushed to the portholes, almost blind from the brightness that flooded into the space station. Its overall structure and operational activities were very similar to Salyut 6. Gennadys observation lasted about 7 seconds, then the object evaporated. Salyut 7 went silent. There was no fire aboard Soyuz T-13 during the mission, and this seems to be the filmmakers combining the story of the later fire aboard the Mir space station in order to add more tension and drama to the film's ending. In a series of spacewalks, cosmonauts conducted two in-orbit repairs and a later repair with a special tool delivered by ground resupply. placement: 'Mid Article Thumbnails', The crew thought it might be hallucinations or fatigue from hard work. One that exists in the universe and that can manifest itself in many different ways. The first problem was how do you dock with a dead space station that used an automatic powered docking system. Appointments 866.588.2264. Time Traveler to Run for President and Reveal the Technology, Some of the Strangest Cases of Hauntings: From Loch Ness to Ancient Warriors, Ghost Photos and Encounters from England's Haunted Wellington Pier, A Creepy Cemetery, a Vampire, and the Bizarre Feud Between Two Wizard Vampire Hunters. While it is a stretch admittedly that this might be the case, it is an interesting point to consider. Essentially, everything is energy and frequency. Was it something else? After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. All Soviet and Russian space stations were equipped with automatic rendezvous and docking systems, from the first space station Salyut 1 using the Igla system, to the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station using the Kurs system. Join MU Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions & much more! The problems on the Station were electrical in nature but if they just hot wired the station from Soyuz, the fault that took down the Space station could also blow the electrics of Soyuz and then they would be stranded and face almost certain death. For that, I credit Nickolai Belakovski for his article "The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station" which can be found on the Ars Technica website. The intention was of conducting various scientific experiments in space. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Learn where astronauts will appear, browse collecting guides, and read original space history-related daily reports. Portree, Mir Hardware Heritage, pp. Plus, the cosmonauts were working in Earth orbit, while Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were fighting to get home from the depths of cislunar space. When the Salyut mission was concluded and the . The first attempt to launch Soyuz T-10 was aborted on the launch pad when a fire broke out at the base of the vehicle. It jettisoned its recovery module on 23 August, and re-entered the atmosphere on 19 September. Only two Interkosmos "guest cosmonauts" worked in Salyut 7. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Maybe we are not out of the apocalyptic woods just yet! The series of events that occurred on the Salyut 7 do not answer this question, but, rather, compel us to consider the possibility that there are "others" in this universe that, in the most dire of times, manifest in ways that force us to question the very foundation of our beliefs as well as our place in the cosmos. Upon arrival, on 6 June 1985, the Soyuz crew found the station was not broadcasting radar or telemetry for rendezvous, and after arrival and external inspection of the tumbling station, the crew estimated proximity using handheld laser rangefinders. There is a docking! he triumphantly called out. UFO Insight does not take responsibility for the content of the comments below. Would love your thoughts, please comment. First, there is no way such maneuvers could have gone undetected at the time and, second, orbital mechanics simply made them impossible. The repair and reactivation of the station by Soyuz T-13 is the subject of the 2017 Russian historical drama Salyut 7. With the station back up and running, the crew of Soyuz T-13 was no longer on a rescue mission. Baffled by what they had all just seen, the three cosmonauts had a heated discussion on what the beings were and what rational explanation could account for it, but they could come up with nothing. The problem with this explanation is that six seasoned, experienced cosmonauts all saw the same thing at the same time, and all of them were given clean bills of mental and physical health afterward, making it seem rather unlikely that this could all be in their heads. At least do a little bit of research and you would have found that. https://books.google.es/books?id=qe8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=PT14&dq=cosmonaut+angels&source=bl&ots=jKivDc68sm&sig=4iA2UerHDH3bk51oTP-rb3Xjw64&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ozh_T7-zOIrq9AT29Y3mBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true, Non-Mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7, HelperBot v1.1 r/HelperBot_ I am a bot. Mining Pools: Why They Are So Popular In 2023, 1.2 Million Years Ago Unknown Human Species Manufactured Obsidian Axe In Mass, Luis Elizondo: There Are UFO Photos With Entities Inside & Otherworldly Biological Samples, Ex-US Sec. The authors of the film chose material that allowed them to remain true to the facts. more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Fyodorov and Viktor Alyokhin attempt to dock with the empty, frozen craft to bring it back to life.[4]. Where are the best places to see the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses? Will We Ever Be Able to Sleep Our Way to the Stars? On 9 September 1983, during the stay of Vladimir Lyakhov and Alexander Alexandrov, while reorienting the station to perform a radiowave transmission experiment, Lyakhov noticed the pressure of one fuel tank was almost zero. Once the batteries were replaced, the station started charging them, and warmed up over the next few days. Mir, the state-of-the-art orbital facility in development, was delayed and still six years from launch. There were approximately 20 windows with shades on the Salyut 7. [1] Various crew and modules were used over its lifetime, including 12 crewed and 15 uncrewed launches in total. The Audrey and Debbie Hewins Encounter, Nancy Lieder who has made various predictions about the end of the world. According to a Russian documentary program made in 2012, the Americans considered trying to capture Salyut-7 in the Space Shuttles cargo bay and bring it back to Earth. What is the Canadian French language plot outline for Salyut-7 (2017)? McClelland claimed that others had seen the incident too, and that they had been told to keep quiet about what they had seen, meaning that he had sat on this hauntingly bizarre experience until after he retired. On Day 167 of the mission, the Salyut gained an additional three cosmonauts in the form of Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. Subscribe Today! juin 1985. The first crew on Mir travelled in the Soyuz to Salyut, to collect and transfer valuable equipment: the only time a station-to-station crew transfer has taken place to date. However, the evidence disappeared after the events were declassified. In a special training, the Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft ten times rose to a height of several thousand meters and abruptly went down the parabola, while weightlessness appeared for 26 seconds. Using the laser rangefinder to align with the docking port, the crew matched the rotation of their craft to Salyut, and then slowly approached, to contact and dock. In the spring of 1993, video footage was made showing the movement of a luminous flying vehicle. Over time the batteries ran flat and soon the whole station went dead, unable to communicate with the ground or function at all. This is almost a by-product to the constant opportunism of some alternative media sites. The Soyuz was fitted with a laser rangefinder and the crew took night vision goggles in case they had to dock on the night side. See production, box office & company info. Last chance to join our 2020 Costa Rica Star Party! [1] Supporting spacecraft included the Soyuz T, Progress, and TKS spacecraft.[1]. The fault was eventually found to be an electrical sensor that determined when the batteries needed charging. [1] This operation forms the basis of the 2017 Russian film Salyut 7. So might the angels that the crew of the Salyut 7 witnessed in 1984 have been such a warning? Image size . Angels. The meeting was also attended by cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Viktor Savinykh and Oleg Skripochka, the head of the Roscosmos by Igor Komarov and the daughter of the first cosmonaut Elena Gagarina. It began to slowly tumble. Mir launched in February of 1986, but even with its replacement in orbit, Salyut-7 continued to make history. It was not artificial because an artificial object couldnt attain this form. [9], However, unexpectedly high solar activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s increased atmospheric drag on the station and sped its orbital decay. The most rational and scientific answer is that these cosmonauts experienced what they had suspected in the beginning, which is some sort of mass hallucination or madness brought on by the demanding stresses, fatigue, and the harsh conditions of space. ", " "-7", -7: 2017 , "The Space Review: Kidnapping a Soviet Space Station", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salyut_7_(film)&oldid=1104034461, Aleksandr Samoylenko as Valeriy Shubin, flight director (based on, Polina Rudenko as Olya Fyodorova, Vladimir Fyodorov's daughter, This page was last edited on 12 August 2022, at 05:21. So what in the world did the cosmonauts of the Salyut 7 see? Bas sur des faits rels. This is a forum for free thinking, not hate speech. This malfunctioning sensor was designed to stop the batteries from overcharging. Based on actual events. These events also served as a plot base for the Polish novel Poowa nieba (pol. We have only within the last century really begun to comprehend some of its secrets to any appreciable degree, and there are certainly wonders beyond our imagination for us yet to behold. 400-Mile-Thick Solid Metallic Ball Found Inside Earths Core: Underground World? The #Salyut 7 Incident - Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? Making matters worse, the interior of the station rapidly lost heat, eventually reaching a frigid, yet stable, temperature of about 4 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius). Neither the crew nor ground control knew what had caused the station to go dark, or what lay in wait for them inside. Filming lasted several months with great physical exertion. If we know one thing about every space mission, its that cameras abound. You may republish short quotes from this articlewith a reference back to the original UFO Insight article here as the source. NASAs announcement in 1983 that they would make astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan the first woman to complete a spacewalk began things. Many ancient writings and holy books speak openly about angels and those who acted as messengers for God. Salyut 7 was part of the transition from monolithic to modular space stations, acting as a testbed for docking of additional modules and expanded station operations. Dzhanibekov piloted his ship to intercept the forward port of Salyut 7 and matched the station's rotation. At this point they would witness probably the last thing they had expected to see out there. Hearing this, the Soviets immediately set their sights on such an achievement. _taboola.push({ Biology, nature, and cryptozoology still remain Brent Swancers first intellectual loves. Onboard were Oleg Atkov, Leonid Kizim, and Vladimir Solovyov, who noticed that the entire space station was flooded with a bright orange glow. These were both physical and mental in nature. Retrieval at a future date by a Buran shuttle was also planned. The #Salyut 7 Incident - Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? While some believe the experience to be nothing more than a bizarre hallucination, others believe in a more divine answer. It carried three solar panels, two in lateral and one in dorsal longitudinal positions, but they now had the ability to mount secondary panels on their sides. The author does not own the rights to this content. At this point, the Soviet's larger, more advanced Mir space station was still a work progress. 7 key Inventions that Made the Modern World. The opinions and discussion in the comments below are not the views of UFO Insight, they are the views of the individual posting the comment. I dont know of anything that can make this movement tightening, then expanding, pulsating. It is perhaps worth bearing in mind, however, the following. The short video clip below features Icke explaining this theory in more detail. Salyut 7 was a second-generation Soviet space station. Another fairly rational explanation is that they witnessed some strange, unexplained natural phenomenon and simply misidentified what they were seeing, but even if this were true, why would they all give the exact same description of winged, angelic entities with smiling faces? [2] Aside from the many experiments and observations made on Salyut 7, the station also tested the docking and use of large modules with an orbiting space station. Dzhanibekov described the environment as kolotoon," which is a slang term in Russian meaning extreme cold with harsh undertones.