If there is a need to translate works into Russian, Valery and Natalia Lapikurs successfully do it themselves. And a couple of years ago a completely funny situation arose. When one of his Moscow friends began to reproach the authors for “national narrow-mindedness,” they made a bet with him: we, they say, are writing a detective story in Russian, from the life of the modern Russian outback, and you, my dear, are “pushing” it in one of the Moscow publishing houses . The detective story was written. But my friend didn’t keep his word. Moreover, he became sad and stopped communicating. So - we present to your attention a “girl not wooed” under the ironic name “S.S.S.R.” The plot of the story begins with a situation typical of any provincial city in the CIS: an ordinary passer-by, not burdened by the presence of not only a cool foreign car, but even a rusty “penny”, has a brick fall on his head. Only. But as a result of the collision of a brick with the head of an ordinary passer-by, further events acquire not only dynamics, but also a completely criminal overtones.