About the book: 1963 / Mikhail Efimovich Zuev-Ordynets is a famous Soviet writer, author of interesting action-adventure stories and novellas. He was born in 1900 in Moscow .In 1918, M.E. Zuev-Ordynets volunteered for the Red Army and, after graduating from the Moscow Artillery School of Red Commanders, went to the front, where he stayed until the end of the Civil War. Having been demobilized from the Red Army, he chose journalism as his profession, worked in newspapers and At the same time he tried his hand at literature. In 1925, the first adventure stories of Zuev-Ordynets appeared in the magazines “Around the World”, “World of Adventures”, “World Pathfinder”, “Struggle of the Worlds”. In 1927, the writer's first book was published - a collection of stories "Yellow Typhoon". Subsequent books by Zuev-Ordynets were his novels "The Tale of the City of Novo-Kitezh" and "The Rumble of the Desert", the historical story "Khlopushin's Search", a collection of short stories "The Crash" exotics" tell about brave people, faithful in friendship and love, fearlessly moving towards their goal, always high, deeply human. In 1960 - 61, new books by Mikhail Efimovich were published: “The Second Spring” and “Call 5...5...5...” The collection “Island of Sunken Ships” offered to the reader is stories about our contemporaries: geologists-treasure hunters (stories “Fog”, “Sedimentary Rock”), Soviet border guards (story “Songs over the River”). “Lyubyan Station” is a story about love.