Extreme sports present surprises of the most fantastic nature. It also happens that you jump with a parachute in the twenty-first century, and land in 1938, right on the bunk of the Kresta detention center. Businessman Nikolai Ivanov could not even imagine how the knowledge acquired at the Mining Institute would be useful. In Soviet Russia, he was destined for only one place - in the Azimut group, looking for gold in Chukotka. You have to work where the Party orders, and keep your mouth shut so that hotheads do not recognize a guest from the future and slap him as an enemy of the people. The life of a modern person in the Stalin era is filled with exciting adventures. There are foreign intelligence agents, real saboteurs, and even the court sorcerer Wolf Messing, who possesses Higher Knowledge inaccessible to mere mortals. Gradually, the leader of the Azimuth group begins to understand how he traveled through time and who is the real culprit for the fact that death constantly walks next to him.