About the book: 1959 / Emil Mikhailovich Ofin was born in 1911 in Kharkov, and his first story was published in a collection of beginning authors in the publishing house "Soviet Writer" in 1954 This book contains two stories by Emil Ofin - “Zhenka” and “Summer Resident” from which the reader learns about people who are excellent at their profession, how they pass on their work experience to young people, about love and mutual assistance, about the friendship of the Chinese and Russians.