About the book: 1989 / In the new book of the young writer S. Ionin, laureate of the. A. M. Gorky, included stories about our daily life, about love. They are written captivatingly and with humor. Several stories are dedicated to service in the army, which the author knows firsthand. The cycle of stories “Rod” is dedicated to generations of the Orenburg Cossack family of the Bocharovs - its representatives fought in the Red Army, in the White Army, fought with the Germans in the Patriotic War, and the younger Bocharov, a military pilot, served international debt in Afghanistan.