The collection of Alexander Pokrovsky - the famous St. Petersburg writer, author of the books “Shoot”, “72 meters” and others - includes a collection of short texts, which he himself called a “book of notes”. This evasive genre definition corresponds to the internal nature of lyric verse, free the form of which A. Pokrovsky masterfully masters. The essence of the hero’s regional existence “in the depths of the waters and the belly of the apparatus,” shown by the author with humor and sadness, grotesque and sorrow, is presented to the reader of “Cabin” in an aura of bewitching spiritual precision. The harshness of A. Pokrovsky’s piercing texts seems is rebuilding before our eyes the structure of a mystical submarine, where more than one generation of sons of the Fatherland left their best years.