“Odlyan, or the Air of Freedom” is a novel about the fate of a teenager serving a sentence in educational labor colonies and there, in the zone, comprehending the meaning of freedom. Time period: late 60s - early 70s. This book is a cruel and terrible story, a requiem for a ruined life. The novel was published abroad and became one of the bestsellers in France. The novel “From Zone to Zone” continues the theme “Odlyana...” Zhorka the Blessed from the confessional diary of the same name appears as a great martyr of social injustice: having passed through a psychiatric hospital, he becomes the prey of depraved girls.