About the book: 1977 / The content of the writer’s new work is a fascinating story of a large family of Altai workers, each of whom, in a difficult struggle, makes their way in life. It is not immediately that the heroes of the novel manage to find themselves, their love, their happiness. Fate either scatters them, then gathers them together, and then the family of the old professional worker Ivan Komrakov grows stronger, who, like an Altai mountain ridge, towers over the children who have found their calling.