Oleg Vereshchagin’s book was written for young people and about young people. About those guys who know that everything in life must be achieved through their own work; that honor must be protected from a young age, that conscience is the most important thing in a person, that courage and bravery are completely normal qualities of men and women. The taiga is perhaps one of the most mysterious and key places on the planet. The roots of previous civilizations, places where “... people visit once a year, and only just passing through. There are places where they never existed at all.” It is in such places that the adventures of the heroes of this book take place - ordinary Russian teenagers who find themselves in a difficult situation after a plane crash of a private plane in the Far Eastern taiga. In difficult conditions, they learn what true friendship, camaraderie, courage and self-confidence, faith in their Land and love for the Motherland are. It was difficult and scary, but they coped with all the difficulties with honor...