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Red Sky: True Stories of Earth, Fire, and a Flying Man

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This book is a documentary. What is it about? About the Far East in the first half of the twentieth century, including the troubled years of the Civil War and almost five years of intervention. About aviation, which experienced in those decades of explosive development and frenzied popularity. About the inexhaustible human aspiration to the sky, to the moon, to the stars. About the space race between the USSR and the United States - from the first satellite to the landing of a man on the moon. About strange convergences, mysterious coincidences, incomprehensibly influencing destinies and drawing biographies. About the mysterious mysteries of creativity. About the second, led, understudies, losers, forgotten... About fame and infamy, luck and failure, choice and the human way. Finally - or above all - about the fate of a seemingly ordinary military pilot Lev Kolesnikov, around whom all the above-mentioned plots are strangely and sometimes surprisingly formed and intertwined. In the line of Kolesnikov's life the history of his native Vladivostok, the country and the world is refracted.
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