In large cities with a population of over a million, resonant, as they say nowadays, crimes periodically occur in which a variety of people are involved. So all the heroes of the novel “A Medal for a Marauder” find themselves involved in a raid on the institute’s cash register, each has their own interest in this matter: money, love, career... The work is written based on real events that occurred in Novosibirsk, but the plot and characters, on behalf of which the story is told are fictitious.