The first volume of the ten-volume collected works of the famous Russian writer Yuri Polyakov includes the famous “forbidden” stories “One Hundred Days Before the Order” (1980) and “Emergency of a Regional Scale” (1981), as well as poems from different years, many of which are published for the first time . The introductory essays “How I Was a Poet” and “How I Was a Shaker of the Fundament”, specially written for this edition, will reveal to readers the secrets of the creative laboratory of a remarkable artist of words.