Gennady Gor (1907–1981) is a famous Leningrad science fiction writer, author of popular science essays and stories for young people; an original prose writer who wrote a lot about the small peoples of Russia; one of the early Soviet students of Leningrad modernism of the 1920s; the author of devastatingly frank poetry, one of the most terrible and exciting texts of the besieged Leningrad. Over half a century in Soviet literature, Gore was repeatedly forced to change the trajectory of his writing route, being remembered differently by different generations of readers, but in his posthumous life he managed to literally turn his literary biography around. In the present The publication included Gore's early prose, selected stories from the 1930s, two stories - 1929 and 1945, as well as the siege cycle. For all their differences, these texts undoubtedly testify to each other, forming a common space in which the naive formal experiment of the 1920s and the absolute limit of language and subjectivity in breaking the blockade are refracted in many reflections.