About the book: 1964 / The first stories of the Belarusian writer Arkady Chernyshevich appeared in print in 1940. Several of his collections of short stories and novellas, as well as the novels “Dawn” and “Dungeon Malinovka,” have been published in the republic. The collection “Congestion on the Twentieth” includes the best stories by A. Chernyshevich, written by him in recent years. The writer is concerned with various problems. The stories “Gorky Child” and “Forest True” are devoted to issues of family, everyday life, love and relationships among young people. In the stories “Martyn Kogut”, “In Nanosy” and “Congestion on the Twentieth” the author fights with the remnants of the past in the minds of individual people, shows the great influencing power of the collective.