About the book: 1987 / The name of Evgeniy Voevodin (1928-1981), who passed away early, is well known to readers. He is the author of many works about our contemporaries, people of different ages and professions. Many of the writer’s works have received a second life on television and in cinema. The heroine of the title story “This Strong Weak Woman” is a metallurgist who works at the Institute of Metal Physics of the Academy of Sciences. Both in the story, and in short stories, and in essays, the author poses moral problems in close connection with production problems that determine the attitude of the heroes to their civic duty.