The second book in the “Road to Nowhere” dilogy is a continuation of the first book. The events described in the first book end in 1935. In the second, a “time jump” occurs and the reader is transported directly to 1986, to the beginning of Perestroika. The heroes of the novel are the descendants of the heroes of the first book and characters who have nothing to do with those events. What remains common is the location of the action: Southern Siberia, the Bukhtarma region, which in Soviet reality became Eastern Kazakhstan and Rudny Altai. The road to nowhere is a seventy-year experimental historical path that completely exhausted the entire Soviet people (first of all, the “roots”, the Russian people, suffered). They suffered at the behest of political adventurers who led the country off the universal “main road” onto an experimental “side road”, in an attempt to “stand ahead of the rest of the planet”, to shoulder the heavy and thankless burden of the leader of mankind.