Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1928–1989) wrote about people who chose a difficult and dangerous road in life—polar explorers, firefighters, travelers. And he himself belonged to the same restless human breed: at a very young age Sanin managed to take part in the Great Patriotic War, after the war he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, worked in a newspaper, became a writer, and more than once visited the Arctic Circle, the Arctic and Antarctic. The plots of his works are often based on real events, developing in non-trivial circumstances and closed communities (such as the crew of a ship or an avalanche station). The book includes the famous cycle “Call of the Polar Latitudes,” consisting of five stories, and the novel “White Curse” ", adapted into a film in 1987. The prose of Vladimir Sanin has inspired filmmakers more than once: it is worth mentioning here the film “Seventy-two degrees below zero” (1976) and the three-part television film “Antarctic Tale” (1979).