Dmitry Natanovich Pritula (1939–2012), a famous St. Petersburg prose writer, lived most of his life in the city of Lomonosov. The author of a novel, a number of novellas and a large number of short stories drew plots and characters for his works from the everyday life of “little” people who lived in a small town. The prose writer saw his creative task in depicting various human qualities manifested by ordinary people in conditions of continuous deformation by the surrounding reality, the state - especially in unusual and even unthinkable situations. Many of the works he wrote in the 1970-1980s could not be published due to censorship Considerations, some are published in this collection for the first time, for example, “December-76” and “Radiculitis”. Others, such as the story “Warm September,” were published only once, in a magazine. The theme of “offended people” can also be seen in Dmitry Pritula’s stories of the post-Soviet era. From these texts it is interesting to trace how, while changing, the political and economic system leaves only human suffering and misfortune unchanged. And how, despite it, these ordinary people are still trying to survive, love and be happy. The book was prepared for printing by Zvezda Magazine LLC.