Vladimir Frolov

An aviation colonel comes to the Western Urals, to a large village of industrial importance. He remembers running here as a barefoot boy with his friend in the early 1930s. Then there was only a small crossing and a small village. About how they lived and studied here, how they became active builders of a new life, how they dreamed of seeing different countries, how they bravely fought the Nazis far from their homeland.

En 1988, en Russie, Platon Makowski, un brillant scientifique, et ses amis abandonnent la recherche pour se lancer dans le monde des affaires. Ils emploieront tous les moyens possibles pour s'enrichir, même les plus illégaux...

Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains and accept uphill battle with no chance to survive.

During the Great Patriotic War, battalion commander Pavel Akimov fell in love with the military translator Anechka Belozerova, but the circumstances of military life separated them.