The new action-packed novel by Yekaterinburg writer Oleg Rain “Youths before the Flood” can be called a modern “novel of education”, since it is about the growing up of a teenage hero, about how schoolboy Sergei Chokhov is faced with many situations in which he is forced to do a very difficult, inconvenient, but the only right choice and to bear responsibility for it. The hero learns to fight for what he considers right, not to remain silent, even if he finds himself alone against everyone, to believe in friendship and love, and even... to fly on a hang glider. This book continues the series “Under fifteen and older...” published by Socrates, addressed to young readers of middle and high school age.