The new book by the famous Siberian prose writer Vladimir Maksimov includes novels and short stories from different years. But all together they create an amazing and original picture of life in Eastern Siberia, so similar and different from the life of European Russia... Here is the romance of youth, the thirst for knowledge of the world and ourselves, which gripped the heroes of the story “We will never be young again” - employees of the Irkutsk Limnological Institute who went on their first real expedition to Lake Baikal. And a calm, peaceful immersion in memories in the circle of old friends, who unexpectedly came together for a few days to relax away from the bustle of the city at the old biological station with the funny name Verkhniye Koty - in the story “Pharm of the Soul.” These are three days of remembrance - three days of almost pagan funeral feast for an untimely departed close friend, which left an indelible mark on the soul of the protagonist of the story “Two Bouquets of Blue Daisies.” And finally, beautiful, bright and poignant scenes-sketches of Siberian life in the stories “The Corral”, “Snow Going Up...” and “Record as a Gift”.