The story of one expedition. A fantastic story with fictional characters and events. Strictly speaking, “The Island” can hardly be called fiction. Science fiction only helped to “demonstrate” some aspects of modern life. The story contains three storylines. Conventionally, they can be called “Russian”, “American” and “alien”. It must be borne in mind that all three lines develop independently of each other, they are connected only by the events that occur. Ignorance of this feature may cause you, the reader, bewilderment while reading the story. In order to avoid this, this preface was written.