About the book: 2023 / This book is documentary. What is it about? About the Far East of the first half of the 20th century, including the troubled years of the Civil War and almost five years of intervention. About aviation, which was then experiencing explosive development and wild popularity. About the half-forgotten Korean War of 1950-1953, in which Soviet pilots secretly participated against American “superfortresses” and “sabers”. About man’s inescapable desire for the sky, for the moon, for the stars. About the space race of the USSR and the States - from the first satellite to the landing of man on the moon. About strange connections, mysterious coincidences that incomprehensibly influence destinies and outline biographies. About the inscrutable secrets of creativity. About the second, the led, the understudies, the losers, the forgotten... About glory and infamy, success and failure, the choice and human path. Finally - or first of all - about the fate of the seemingly ordinary military pilot Lev Kolesnikov, around whom, in a strange and sometimes surprising way, the All the above plots are intertwined. The history of his native Vladivostok, the country and the world is refracted in Kolesnikov’s life line. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.