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Kalmyk knot belongs to the number of practical and reliable knots. Its name suggests that it appeared in our country. And although the Kalmyk steppes are not associated with the sea and ships, it has long been used in the navy. Foreign sailors do not know him, and, oddly enough, he does not appear in any of the many manuals on knitting knots published abroad.

On fig. 97 is a schematic diagram of the knitting of the Kalmyk knot, which shows only the relative position of the ends of the cable relative to each other. In practice, this beautiful knot is knitted almost instantly as follows.

Rice. 97. Kalmyk knot (working loop is marked with a cross)

Get the running end of the cable behind the object and take it, slightly stepping back from the end, from above with your left hand with your thumb towards you. With your right hand, place the root end over the left fist, in which the running end is already clamped, and make the root of the cable complete a turn around it. Then, with the movement of the left hand, move the root end under the root of the large loop while carrying the running end around the same part of the cable and then intercepting the running end with the fingers of the left hand. After that, gently pull the running end in the form of a loop through the root end hose located on the left hand (by dropping the hose) so that the running end does not straighten out, and tighten the knot with the root end.

The Kalmyk knot securely holds and quickly unties if you pull on the running end. It is used for temporary fastening of the throwing end to the mooring line when the latter is fed from the ship to the berth. It is used to attach the reins to the bridle, as well as to tie the horse in the stable. If a running end that is not folded in half is passed into the loop of the Kalmyk knot, then the knot will not be quickly untied. In this form, it is called the Cossack knot.

Author: Skryagin L.N.

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