Soviet control rooms

As per title.

I don’t understand this one.

That’s the bakery control room obviously! 🙂

2nd one is Greggs head office, Binners is the one on the left.

Guessing number 2 is a reactor based on the circle with dots up top

cool.
I served my time in something very similar.
I bet there’s a load of beds behind the panels, with several C&I bods “resting”. 😉

Where’s the chewky “off” button (asking for a friend)…. 😀

I have been at the controls of this

controlling 1 little reactor.

I’m sitting in a nuclear bunker in Gstaad, right now…

All I can see are Miele ovens, fridges and dishwahers….

I don’t understand this one.

Which one is Keith Emerson?

Guy on the left should buy a new toupee, he’s not been ginger for years.

Which one is Keith Emerson?

No, why the little desks? Is it operated by midgets?

I often wondered about the sort of estblishment a chap like CFH would purchase staionary and typewriters from. Now I know, thanks CFH. I was in the market for some 1980’s graph paper 😀

Is it operated by midgets

Its operated by Ice Cream Van Drivers – Russia has obviously been drawn into hostilities in Glasgow

Planning to visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_missile_forces_museum_in_Ukraine on a ride to Lviv later this year. Looks fab!

Rachel

The first computer I worked with looked like this

On boring night shifts we’d switch the panel light test toggle on, then pull out enough bulbs to spell sweary messages. Oh how those hours passed…..

not just russian, did some work at rae bedford windtunnel back in the day had fantastic 50’s control room (Delta Dart period)

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I had the good fortune to wander round one of the turbine control rooms at Battersea power station back in 2010, I still kick myself for not taking a shed load of photos! The labelling in it made me chuckle a bit, various areas of London with an on/off lever next to them.

What a set of knobs.

^^^^ That line of mercury manometers above the cell window is a work of art in itself!

(although probably not great if you get an unexpected over-range and it fountains mercury all over the control room……)

The control room on an offshore facility I visited recently (commissioned 1995) was not all that different excepy for flat screens on the cctv and computers nowadays.

some of the control room/ panels I have seen on my travels. 1st one is battersea
Running on empty by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Cauldron control by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Loosing control by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr

Tracking station 63, Can you hear me Madrid ? Can anybody hear me ? by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Shut it down by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Looks like No.4 is running hot by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Control central by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Dont touch anything. It could get messy by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Shutdown by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Graffiti busters by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Totally in control by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
How to make steel by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Hello Nasty by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Loosing control by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Live view by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Control freak by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Just another control room by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Kraftwerk by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr
Powering what ? by Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr

Sofaking wins…

I assume you had permission to be in all of those places?

The Russian control rooms should have kids running about. Russian parents like taking their kids to work and letting them have a play on stuff…

I assume you had permission to be in all of those places?

It’s his job to be there
He’s a freelance henchman

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Who writes all the operating manuals and procedures for that lot?
I bet 80% of the buttons and dials no one actually knows what they do, nor have been “pressed” since the day it/they were installed 🙂

This is me…………….several years ago. 1950’s technology.

Goddamit another henchman

OP you’re going to have to dispatch sofaking silently with a gentle karate chop to the side of the neck before pushing switchbackfrog over that handrail into the pirana tank.

And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.

tomhoward. no not at all

“Who writes all the operating manuals and procedures for that lot?”

Waves…:-)
Done a few.
Nowadays it’s all e learning and if it goes bang ,you blame the bloke that left last week.

It’s like looking into our post Brexit future! 😀

What I find amazing is that so few people in the pictures had so many different dials to monitor. The advent of a digital screen with 20 or so traces has made things a lot easier!

What I find amazing is that so few people in the pictures had so many different dials to monitor. The advent of a digital screen with 20 or so traces has made things a lot easier

Look up Three Mile Island on Wikipedia to see what happens when you have complicated instrumentation.

I think they used dolls heads and sticky labels to Indicate stuff you might need to find in a hurry.

It’s like looking into our post Brexit future!

“Supreme leader May opens state of the art new facility”

These there’s enough smarts (in theory) to only display what’s important at the time, and leave all the non critical stuff buried in some other displays you never get too. Back then an operator was trained to “sweep” across everything in their regular scan, but as it was all needles and dials, it was surprisingly easy to spot something off-nominal

Looks like my shift were on when this was taken:

That’s the control room for two reactors, what you can’t see is below where the photo was taken are the grid and site electrical switching panels. No idea what they were up to there, probably risk of trip work or load changing for refuelling.

If you think that’s a lot you should see the Reactor Shutdown Sequencing Equipment. Not so much a computer as banks and banks of reed relays. Hackproof though 😀

EDIT: Ah, the missing picture: