About the book: 1968 / Far in the North, in one of our ports, the heroes of Pyotr Lebedenko’s novel “The ice is going into the ocean” are working - welders, difficult people and romantic profession. It is they, the Soviet dockers, who bring ships in need of repair back to life, sometimes working for several days without rest, in blizzards and severe frosts. Worker pride, purity of thoughts, a bright attitude, the ability to make strong friends and truly love are characteristic features of such heroes of the book as Mark Talalin, Sanya Kerdysh, Stepan Vanenga, Lyudmila Khristanova, party organizer Peter Smaydov, and others. They resolutely and adamantly reject the selfish aspirations of individual workers, for whom personal, selfish interests are more important than public ones. In the novel, with party passion, a struggle is waged against everything that contradicts socialist morality and morality..