About the book: year / That awkward moment when you realize that you were just going on vacation with friends to Karelia, but on the way you were shanghaied*. Again. It’s just that before I was recruited as a mercenary without a name to hot spots, and now I woke up as a junior researcher at a secret research institute. And all around us is the autumn of 2023 and the Soviet Union, who knows how, has survived. *Zashankhait is an old maritime term. Drink him into insensibility and load him onto a ship so that the person wakes up on the open sea.