Georgy Vladimov’s novel “Three Minutes of Silence” was written back in 1969, but, for various reasons, it was not published without cuts at that time. Thirty-five years later, its complete edition is published - very frank and unapologetic. The language of the novel - juicy, thickly saturated with sea slang - makes reading very exciting and reliable. Before writing the novel, Vladimov hired himself in Murmansk as a sailor on a fishing seiner and spent several months walking around the northern seas.