About the book: 1978 / The action of Vladimir Dmitrievich Fomenko's novel "Memory of the Earth" dates back to the early 50s, during the construction of the Volga-Don Canal. Main story lines the works and fates of his characters - Lyuba Fryanskova, Nastasya Shchepetkova, Golubov, Konkin, Golikov, Orlov and others - are determined by the need to resettle the Don villages and farmsteads located on the territory of the future Tsimlyansk Sea to new lands. A sharp change in the usual, established way of life reveals the true the essence of many human characters, from an ordinary collective farmer to a district leader. It is they, in all their diversity of natures, in their relation to the great achievements of our time, that are the focus of the author’s attention.