About the book: 1966 / The story by Vladimir Ishimov and Alexander Lukin, published in 1966 in the magazine "Smena", is based on real events : in 1933-1934, in the city of Nikolaev, state security agencies discovered and liquidated a German espionage and sabotage organization. Alexander Lukin, one of the oldest Soviet security officers, worked in the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR in the thirties and personally took part in the operation described in the story. Including In 1966, the story was published by the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house as a separate book entitled “Deceptive Silence.”».