Uncle Styopa Part 3 By S. Mickhalkov Poem by Yuri Starostin

3. Uncle Styopa and Egor

I, friends, will tell you immediately:
This book is made on order.

I arrive to the kindergarten,
Show the art for the children.
'Read 'Uncle Styopa', -
The first row asks by the chorus.

I read the book for the children
Had not go on the place to sit down,
The boy stand up:
'And Stepan have a children? '

What would I say to him?
Hard to answer: no.
The poems about uncle Styopa
I begin many years ago

And nowhere about uncle Stepa
Never I said he was married.
One day he fell in love,
Chose one girl,
And married on Manya,
And carry the wife to the home...

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What is happened in the nursing home
On this winter day!
Who is that with the guests
The sisters, the babysitting, the doctors acquaint?

The child sleeps in the bright, sunny ward,
Near the mom on the bed
In view of the other moms,
Is unprecedented,
Not a baby, but small one-
The full eight kilogramms!

The chambers heard a whisper,
Heard the loud talking:
-The son named Egor
Born at uncle Stepan!

All the militia of the country
Sends the congratulations
On the seventh department
In the dad- foreman address.

The telegram received:
'What is the new Hercules? ',
'Check the weight',
'Confirm the exact weight'.

Congratulates the Gorky sity
Oktober children-kids:
'Our greetings from all souls
To uncle Styopa and Egor '.

And Tashkent and Sevastopol
Congratulate uncle Stepa,
The battle Baltic fleet
Send the gift for the baby.

The postman tire to wear
The congratulations to the department.
Uncle Styopa from the excitement
Began stutter even.

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The bogatyr, not a child!
How not to believe in a miracles?
Grows out a diapers
Not by a days but by a hours.

Now he eat a pudding by a spoon,
Says, 'Aguh, agah...'
Now he stood on his feet,
Did the first two steps.

Now already Egor stand
At the blackboard with chalk in the arm,
Here the first five note
of Egor is in the diary...

He go to the bed on the clock
Do not wait an instructions.
Even if something dream -
Egor stand up at the seven hour in the morning.

In the heat, in the cold- all is one
He reveals the window.
Quickly doing the exercises,
Eating on the breakfast the soft-boiled eggs,
The five potato cutlets,
The two cups of the yogurt
And the plate of the semolina -
A porridge do also not hurt!

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About Egor Stepanov
The rumor spread very quick:
The boy have a ten years,
But the small child have
The power is not by the age,
Not a child, but an athlete!

Among the thousands of a kids
There is no such chaps.

Somewhere a quarrel brewing,
A dispute turns into a fight
No a fights, no a strife,
If Egor is near.

Though the growth is not like the father
Not to offend the fellow:
He puts on the two blades
At school the best wrestler -
The wrestling champion
From the seventh 'B' class.

Uncle Styopa is happy and proud
That boy likes a sports.

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Once the'Volga'stuck in the snow,
Been stuck for a very long time,
Skidded till nowaday-
Egor are not noticed its.

Obliquely the driver behind the steering
Looking with the sadness at the wheels,
Silently he mutters evil:
'Here's the problem, so to brought! '

He approached him behind
And helped to the stranger uncle:
Pile from the fence by the foot,
Swing once or twice...

The uncle got very surprised,
Gave the signal and roll out!

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The shoes slip on the grass-,
The eagles soar in the blue sky.
The travel squad
Stretched along the path.

All get difficult in the hike -
All do not go easy,
And have not lie a down and a wool
In the pioneer backpack.

The mountain of all sorts good
Moves uphill -
This is our Egor pulls
The two tents, the two bucket
And the firewood for the fire.

He loaded the baggage so much,
You are not recognize him
Neither front nor rear.
What do to do in the squad if
No one is stronger!

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Day by day, year by year
Uncle Styopa son grows.
He is red cheek, is broad in the shoulders,
He goes in the first athletes.
He is stocky and muscular,
All recognized him as the weightlifter.

The first day of the competition.
The hall to heard: 'Attention!
Show 'average weight'! '
Egor enter in the arena,
A people appoint the eyes him,
Show the interest.

The world records set
In this hall, not for the first time-
And the gold medal
Coin to the masters.
The son of uncle Stepan beats
The European record in this time:
Lift,
Wring...
Three hundred and thirty kilogramms!


Uncle Styopa is almost cried
From such great luck,
Whispers to the ear of his wife:
I am, Marusia, as in the dream...

The champion immediately get
The gold two medals.
He got the call from the newspapers:
Urgently require the portrait.
The two overseas reporter
Ask politely Egor
To answer on the questions.
- How old are you?
- The twenty years.
- What is your wish?
- To get the education.
- What do you want to become?
- To fly between the stars!

Smiled reporters:
You are able to dream?
'Yes! ' said Egor.- Can.
To deny yourself I don't dare!
So the whole country dreams,
The our big whole family do...
Please, meet my dad -
The police foreman!

The reporters bowed,
Excuse by the english way
And, closing the tape recorder,
Quickly ran out.

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The port is open internationally
The port is air, is not water.
The new terminal.
The passengers are the full hall.

Every minute
The ships fly
This one in the Havana, that one in the Calcutta,
In the other end of the earth.
As the sky princess,
The flight stewardesses run.

The border guard
Standing in their posts:
Puts the stamps in the foreign
And in the soviet passports.

The people have in the arms the tickets
And the bouquets, and the packages.
The loud murmur. The jokes. The laughter.
Only this is not a tourists,
But the gymnasts, the weightlifters,
And, of course, the football players -
We know all perfectly!

All they are by the names
Since the childhood we know...

The moms, the dads, the uncles Kolyas,
The aunts Capas, the grandchildren,
The daughters, the sons escort -
Everyone has a family!
All say mixed
To farewell to everybody:
- Will runing— do not stumble,
Come running -do not cool!

You need an experience in each case,
In order to do not waste a power...

Uncle Stepa joking with the son:
- The bar you has not forgotten at home?

Passed three weeks.
- Flew?
- Has arrived!
-How you was flying? Aren't you tired?
- All right!
- Where are the medals? -
The voices from all sides...

'Hello, son!
'Hi, Papa! '
The olympic champion shouted from the ladder
To uncle Stepa.

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We have the barely noticeable
Semi-secret town,
The fence surrounded its...

Among the military pilots -
The excellent tester -
Egor lives in the tawn,
He have the rank of a major.

He is strong, bold and serious,
He achieved his dream
In the study of the star space,
In the conquest of the height.

To perform the order
On the rocket ship,
The unearthly tests
He passed on the Earth.

And one morning early
We will hear in the silence:
Cosmonaut Egor Stepanov
Sends the greetings from the Mars to the moon! '

There would be communicated:
'Send the greetings from the Mars to the moon! '
There would be a delight!
And the congratulations are
In the seventh department from the minister
For uncle Stepa — for the foreman!