Big Fire
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Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1928–1989) was a tireless traveler who visited the most inaccessible places on the globe — the Arctic, Antarctica, and the equator. He was one of the last Soviet romantics who glorified distant travels and heroic professions. Most of his books are dedicated to sailors and polar explorers, whose lives the author knew firsthand. Such is the story “Obsessed,” which is included in the collection, about the sinking of a ship during icing experiments, or the novel about firefighters, which gave the entire collection its name. Based on real events — the fire at the Rossiya Hotel in 1977 — Sanin is the first in fiction to tell about this difficult profession. Sanin was always distinguished by his kind and subtle humor, which permeates not only the story "The Island of Merry Robinsons", in which the guests of a sanatorium located on an island try to organize a "commune", but also a completely sad story at first glance - "Old Friends", a story about front-line soldiers who, many years after the war, find out who from their company was an informer who sent an innocent man to his death in the GULAG. This collection reveals different facets of Vladimir Sanin's talent. A man of heroic biography, he knew how not to lose heart in any situation, and the reader of Sanin's books will certainly learn his main life and literary credo: to treat circumstances that seem insurmountable with faith in the best.
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