HAYDAMAKY - Yuri MushketikThe most significant of the Haydamak uprisings was the uprising of 1763, known in history as the Koliivshchyna. It was led by the glorious sons of the Ukrainian people Maxim Zaliznyak and Ivan Gonta. The uprising spread throughout Right Bank Ukraine and reached the Carpathian Mountains. The Polish gentry, defeated by the Haidamaks in several battles, turned to the Russian government for help. The uprising was drowned in the blood of the people. But the reflections of the Koliyivshchyna frightened the lords for a long time, and here and there the Haidamak lights flashed again and again... COSSACK ROUTE - Nikolai Samvelyan The action of the novel dates back to the time of the Northern War, in the center of the story is the Battle of Poltava of 1709 and the events that preceded it. The cycle of historical events swirls the book's characters, weaving them into the pattern of a troubling era... THE ROAD TO THE SPACE - Vadim Safonov The novel by the famous Russian writer Vadim Safonov, "The Road to the SPACE" tells about Ermak's campaign in Siberia, about the Don lower freemen, the Perm towns of the Stroganov mining owners, the kingdom of the Tatar Khan Kuchuma on the Irtysh. But first of all, this is a novel about the feat of mighty people, which has been preserved in people's memory for more than four centuries. This is a fascinating story about the stormy, harsh, contradictory personality of the one who led these people - the Cossack ataman Ermak; about what moved him, relentlessly drove him, pulled him forward, to defeats and victories...