About the book: year / The book by the wonderful documentary writer Gennady Paderin introduces readers to the wonderful world of people who seek, who sometimes puzzle those around them with unexpected thoughts and actions, people who are passionate their ideas and work. A self-taught meteorologist, and now the world famous “hurricane catcher” Dyakov, a young aquanaut Konovalov, who declared fear and only fear to be the culprit for the death of people on the water, Professor Dubynin, who “revolted” against the generally accepted opinion about the indisputable advantages of the open-pit method of ore mining and coal, a method that turns vast areas of Mother Earth into industrial deserts - this is not a complete list of the heroes of G. Paderin’s essays. For the first time, the collection widely presents the writer’s stories about the war in which he was a participant. These are stories about how “one is not born as a soldier, one becomes one by overcoming peacetime habits, ordinary human weaknesses, and becomes one in battles for one’s homeland. The book is intended for the widest range of readers.