About the book: 1966 / The story of the Mari writer Vasily Yuksern (Vasily Stepanovich Stolyarov) tells about the final stage of the Great Patriotic War - the defeat of the Japanese military by Soviet troops. The action takes place on Sakhalin. The main character of the story, fourteen-year-old Misha Atamanych, the son of a Soviet officer who died in battles against the Nazis, becomes an intelligence officer of the Soviet Army and finds himself a participant in important events. He helps detain a Japanese spy, fights bravely, and goes on difficult and dangerous operations with reconnaissance platoon soldiers.…