About the book: 1960 / Journalist Pyotr Andreevich Bolotov, a traveling special correspondent for a large Moscow newspaper, was returning home from a distant business trip. He spent a long time in the wilderness, far from large centers, and even obtained newspapers in fits and starts. Now he was looking forward to the pleasure of meeting the capital: real coffee, a hot bath, a fresh newspaper, curious friends to whom he could brag about his wanderings. But on the way, Bolotov received a counter telegram from his editorial office: “Make a stop at the Murashi station, collective farm Red Ray, organize urgently material from Nikita Velichko who saved the fire from the collective farm bread of sick people and children, take a conversation».