About the book: 1959 / Mikhail Fedorovich Kolyagin works as a locomotive driver at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. Participant of the Great Patriotic War, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, Red Star and medals. Lives in the Urals since 1947. Without leaving work, Mikhail Fedorovich graduated from the railway technical school and pedagogical school. He was published in newspapers and collections. The story “The Last Flight”, published in this collection, received the second prize in the competition for “Best Story” announced by the editors of the Trud newspaper. Year of birth Mikhail Fedorovich one thousand nine hundred twenty-three.