Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky (1904–1965) - writer, translator, son of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. Nikolai Chukovsky spent most of the war in Leningrad as a war correspondent, surviving the most difficult years of the siege in the besieged city. This collection includes a fascinating war story, with an almost detective plot, “Nine Brothers” about the pilots who defended the skies over the Road of Life, and the boy Pavlik from besieged Leningrad, who managed to single-handedly find and expose the traitor. And also wonderful stories “Girl-Life” and “Kite”.