Sergey Muratov

Young schoolboy Slava Kurochkin suddenly finds himself in a town where books characters live.

Vasily Pronchishchev and Vasily Chelyuskin were young lieutenants of the Russia fleet, who set out from Yakutsk along the Lena River to the Arctic Ocean on a sailing ship under the leadership of the commander Vitus Bering in the summer of 1735. Contrary to the imperial prohibition, incredible trials and deadly danger lying ahead of all the members of this expedition, a young girl enamored with one of the characters got onto this ship. However, neither storms or severe northern frosts and hunger were able to stop them, since fulfilling of their duty, reaching of the most northeastern point of Eurasia and putting of the vast Arctic territories on the world maps were their main purpose in life.

The main character is an Opel Astra car. The car has become an integral part of every person's life. In the short stories the characters work and rest together with the Opel Astra, meet, get to know each other and fall in love, quarrel and make peace.

A new head of the obstetric department, the young and talented Natalia Bakhmetyeva, is joining the experimental scientific and medical center. On the first day of work, she causes a storm of emotions among her new colleagues. Natasha admires them with her undeniable professionalism and outrages them with her tough character.