Andrei Yepishin

Fifty-year-old Vladimir Ivanovich Prokhorov, relieved of his worldly possessions, takes a journey back in time. Accompanied by a traveling companion barely half his age, he revisits the people and places of his youth and witnesses the dark forces that shaped the 20th century.

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

A strange object falls to the ground from space. His fall is accompanied by a strong explosion, which creates chaos on Earth. KGB officer Rem Bezymyanny, the owner of a perfect physical and universal mental nature, intervenes in the case, who is transplanted with a device of extraterrestrial origin to the most incredible places in space and time. After wandering around the worlds, the superhero safely returns to his homeland in the 90s.

The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”

The story is about a marriage swindler of all-Union scale, who once decided to get married, and at the same time to check the profitability of his home filing cabinet, was convinced of its disorder. Upset by the failure, Gvozdev meets Zina in a bar and unwittingly finds himself drawn into the circle of misfortunes of a former variety show dancer (as she introduced herself to him).