The book by the famous St. Petersburg local historian Sergei Glezerov tells about the past and present of the dynamically developing large urban area of the Komendantsky airfield - Kolomyagi. Many things happened here for the first time in Russia: aviation flights, the formation of domestic football, the creation of a children's railway... Nowadays, this place is again, as in the past, overgrown with “noble nests”, this time in the format of townhouses, which bizarrely contrast with patriarchal wooden buildings. You will learn many interesting and unexpected facts from the history of this cozy corner of the old city and will be able to touch the lives of the people who once lived here, as well as compare bygone times with current realities.