About the book: 1985 / In the stories of the Kalinin prose writer Yuri Kozlov, with artistic authenticity, the fate of the heroes is traced from their childhood to the time of severe trials during the Great Patriotic War, when they, Having not yet crossed the threshold of youth, they seek conscription into the army and worthily replace their fathers and older brothers who died on the battlefields. The book ends with the story “From an Evenki Notebook”, the heroes of which - the same recent young defenders of the Motherland - come with a geological expedition to explore the natural resources of the Siberian taiga.