About the book: 1965 / Mikhail Fedorovich Kolyagin is the author of the collection of stories "The Machinist", the documentary story "Volzhanin" and the novel "Different Fates". His stories and essays were published on the pages of regional and central newspapers, in magazines and collective collections. M. Kolyagin’s new collection “After the Night - Morning” includes a short story of the same name and three short stories. The hero of the story, pensioner Platon Vasenin, feels the monotony of his life more and more every day, he is again drawn to his team, and he goes to the workshop late at night just to drink sparkling water from “his saturator.” On the days of his well-deserved rest, Vasenin rethinks his life and comes to the conclusion that “a working person cannot live without work” - even material well-being cannot give joy to a person if life is not filled with meaningful action for the benefit of his people. The fate of the other hero of the story, Ivan Ivanovich Korzhov, is also dramatically complicated. The stories “The Machinist” and “The Last Flight” show the work of railway workers full of romance and heroism. “Ural Armor” - a story about the combat everyday life of an armored train during the Great Patriotic War.