DEAR READERS! Here is the novel “Winter Wind” - a new work by the famous Soviet writer Valentin Petrovich Kataev. With this novel, the writer completed his many years of work - the epic "Waves of the Black Sea", which includes "A Lonely Sail Whitens", "A Farm in the Steppe" and "For the Power of the Soviets" (Catacombs) - books that won sincere love and genuine recognition from a wide range of readers - young and adults. In this novel you will meet your old acquaintances - the boys Petya Bachey and Gavrik Chernoivanenko, now grown up and entering the age of maturity, the Potemkin sailor Rodion Zhukov, the teacher Vasily Petrovich - Petya's father, glorious fighters of the revolution - Bolsheviks-Black Sea residents. The time described in the novel is full of intense, truly dramatic events. These are the seventeenth and eighteenth years, the days when the wind of the October Revolution bursts into the south of Russia and the Black Sea Bolsheviks, inspired by the party and Lenin, established Soviet power in their native Odessa. Excitingly depicted pictures of people's life take us to that harsh and wonderful time , when the foundations of our Today were just being laid. The Bolsheviks of the Black Sea face the most difficult trials: the enemies of the revolution do not give up their positions without a fight, but no matter how they resist, no matter how outrageous they are, their fate has already been decided... People's power, peace and labor are winning!