About the book: 2018 / This is a book of stories of a mainly ethnographic nature about the nature and life of children and youth in Africa and Asia, Crimea, Moscow and Spitsbergen, where he lived for a long time and the author worked. The first book tells about the traditions and customs of the simple indigenous population of Sudan, Pakistan, and India. In the second book, events take place in Europe and Russia. Almost always real stories with real people are described. Sometimes characters and plots are fictitious, but are very real..