About the book: 1975 / This book is about Baltic sailors. Most of the stories are about submariners. After the war, the author served on submarines, and therefore the stories are captivating with their topical issues, the accuracy of the details, and the vitality of the characters. “Today in the morning report they said: “Cold weather with snowfalls persisted on the Kola Peninsula.” I have been serving in the south for three years now, in a large seaside city, where in winter there is about enough snow to fall for the boys to make a dozen or two snow women. The morning report stirred my soul…»