Space aliens began appearing in the city in 1967. From that time on, the classic of Russian science fiction, Kir Bulychev (1934–2003), began to chronicle the Great Guslyar, a small town located somewhere “between Arkhangelsk, Ustyug and Vologda.” The Great Guslyar easily got along with the aliens, one might say, he coped with them, just as the Russian province easily copes with all kinds of clever people and progressors. The reliability of Kir Bulychev's stories is beyond doubt for anyone who has read Saltykov-Shchedrin, Platonov, Sheckley and Kuttner. And those who have not read such stories, who consider a primitive shooter to be a dashing plot and do not know a creature more original than a vampire, will discover in the chronicles of the Great Guslyar a large world of real fiction - smart, fascinating, inventive, caustic and very funny. This book includes stories and stories about Great Guslyar, written in the last years of the author’s life, from 1996 to 2003, as well as previously unpublished works found in the writer’s archive. The entire cycle of works by Kir Bulychev about the Great Guslyar, written over 35 years, consists of three volumes.