Samovar (lit. “self-brewer”) is a metal container used to heat water. A typical samovar consists of a body, steam vent, tap and key.

“Samovars” were also cynically called heavily mutilated post-war veterans - disabled people who had neither arms nor legs. The fate of these "stumps of war" is still behind the eyes of society and missing - after trip in Valaam.

"But how else should we call them, having one last "tap" remained on theirs bodies?" (с)

"There are no invalids in the USSR" (Stalin)