About the book: 1960 / Pokrovsk on the Volga - the capital. The main city of the Volga German Republic. It's from geography. FYI. The signs are double - German-Russian. Triple tongue. Like cologne. Ukrainian, Russian, German. Interesting town. In summer the dust is terrible. And this was in winter. In 1927. The snow was up to the windows, to the roofs, to the disgrace.