Viktor Astafiev’s Farewell Word, the preface of the critic V. Kurbatov, the autobiographical confession of the author Anatoly Sanzharovsky “Repressed before conception”... The confession leads to the thought: if the Soviet regime were alive today, this fifteen-volume book would never have been born. Under the Soviets, A. Sanzharovsky was not published because in the 30s his parents, illiterate Voronezh peasants, did not join the collective farm. For this they were exiled to forestry work in the Arctic. Together with his parents, the future writer was also repressed 4 years BEFORE his birth. The first volume of A. Sanzharovsky includes the well-known novel “The Orenburg Shawl” about the knitters of the famous Orenburg scarves. The novel was highly appreciated by the classic V. Astafiev, published in Delhi and Sofia in translations. The dilogy “Subcarpathian Rus” tells about the life of Rusyns in their homeland, in Subcarpathian Rus, as well as in Canada and the USA. The story “What a girl doesn’t know makes her beautiful” is about the purity of the feelings of young people. The novel “On Foot through Baikal” is about the difficulties of journalistic everyday life.