"Normal Heroes" are travel notes written in a light, humorous manner. Four journeys from the Red Sea to Lake Baikal, from Kaliningrad to the Ural village of Kartalinskaya Zapon are illustrated with numerous photographs by the author. Yuri Goryukhin was born in Ufa. Editor-in-Chief of the Belskie Prostori magazine. Member of the board of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Belarus. Finalist of the Ivan Petrovich Belkin National Literary Award. Twice finalist of the Yuri Kazakov Prize. Winner of the Stepan Zlobin Literary Prize. Shortlist for the Bazhov All-Russian Literary Prize. Shortlist of the International Chekhov Literary Competition “Brevity is the sister of talent.” Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Belarus.