What is the present past? Each reader has his own answer to this difficult question. This can be a story about the past without lies - the way it really happened. Or the past that happened - and which is not ashamed to remember. Or - just life - as it is, with all its joys and sorrows. The folk wisdom is profound: living life is not a field to cross! This is true both for those who were “made in the USSR” and for those who saw the light in the new Russia. However, memories of the Soviet past are remarkable in their own way. This is the era that ended before our eyes, this is our life - but it is already becoming a legend... You can only remember the bad, you can only remember the good. Everyone has their own choice. The choice of Artyom Bocharov is good, strong, truly masculine prose of a man who has seen a lot - and at the same time has not lost his optimism and sense of humor. Needless to say – Magadan hardening! For the widest range of readers.