About the book: 1957 / This edition includes famous stories by A. Avdeenko. The main characters run through the entire book: border guard-pathfinder Andrei Smolyarchuk, the head of the troops of the border district, General Gromada, the young security officer Vasily Goyda and his friend and teacher Colonel Shatrov, a man wise with worldly experience. The author, with great love for his heroes, shows how border guards and security officers guard the border, how they grow and mature in the fight against enemies, how they solve and prevent the most cunning attempts of foreign agents to violate our borders.