The stories and stories of A. A. Kuznetsov are not invented, they are written about what happened to the author in his life, rich in impressions. Before becoming a professional writer, the author, as an ornithologist, a researcher at the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University and as a master of sports in mountaineering, visited dozens of expeditions and made more than a hundred ascents to the peaks of all mountain systems from the Alps to Kamchatka. But mountains, nature, birds serve as would be a background in the works of writers. Their main theme is man. His soul, aspirations, his life credo. In the complex, sometimes extreme environment of expeditions and ascents, human characters are revealed, their essence is revealed. The plots and characters of the stories are very life-like. There is no artificiality in them; the psychological subtlety of the images is convincing and reliable. And each of the stories carries a moral principle, affirms honesty and decency, spiritual purity. A. A. Kuznetsov’s stories are action-packed, read with exciting interest, raise the most pressing problems of today’s laziness and are populated by bright characters. In general, this is prose like no other with its own intonation, without pomp and ceremony, but with deep intelligence and truthfulness.