About the book: 1976 / Vasily Stenkin is familiar to readers of Baikal from stories about security officers published in the magazine at different times. The new story “Under a Foreign Sky” is based on documentary materials.E. D. Tarov, our fellow countryman, a philologist who speaks several oriental languages, served on the instructions of the Cheka in the headquarters of Ataman Semenov, then during the Patriotic War - in the agents of Japanese intelligence. With his participation, it was possible to reveal the sinister plans of bacteriological warfare that the Japanese invaders were preparing against the USSR. The story is published with some abbreviations.