The plots of Sergei Kuznechikhin's novels and short stories are fresh and fascinating; his Siberia has not been explored by masters of older generations. He has enough life experience to tell truthfully about people who do not fit into the framework of “positive” or “negative” heroes. They are far from righteous, but the author does not judge them, but shows them in the most difficult life situations in the struggle for survival.S. Kuznechikhin is a Siberian writer, a member of the Union of Russian Writers. Born in 1946 in the working-class village of Kosmynino near Kostroma. After graduating from the Kalinin Polytechnic Institute, he went to Siberia. During his twenty years of work as a commissioning engineer, he traveled across Siberia from the Urals to the Far East. Lives in Krasnoyarsk. The book contains stories and stories from different years.