About the book: 2016 / The novel was completed in 1942. Excerpts from the novel: “The Battle for the Palace of Culture”, “Check”, “At the Palace of Culture”, “Matvey Kovalev” were published in 1942 and 1943 in Ogonyok, Izvestia, Evening Moscow and Soviet Writer. In full published only in 2016 in the magazine “Siberian Lights”» №№ 07-12