About the book: 1982 / The biblical legend of the “worldwide flood” was once believed unconditionally... Various peoples of the world have stories about a catastrophic invasion of waters. Is there any rational grain in the legends about the flood? What does modern science say about the possibility of a “global flood” - in the past, present and future? You will find the answer to these questions in the new book by the Leningrad writer and scientist Alexander Kondratov, “The Great Flood: Myths and Reality.” Alexander Kondratov is a full member of the Geographical Society, candidate of philological sciences, member of the Scientific Council on Cybernetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He has written over 60 scientific papers and 32 books, translated into twenty languages ​​of the world. A series of books by A. Kondratov devoted to the connections between the history of mankind and the history of the oceans enjoys particular success among Soviet and foreign readers: “Secrets of the Three Oceans”, “Atlantic without Atlantis”, “Address - Lemuria?”, “Traces - on the Shelf”».