About the book: 1988 / The creative biography of R. Rugin was left imprinted by the biography of his homeland - the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the land of great oil and gas, where they occur today processes of rapid industrial development. The stories that make up the collection are devoted to the problems of man’s relationship with nature, his moral and civil responsibility for his land. The heroes of the stories are people with strong, age-old connections with nature, who feel it as alive, easily vulnerable, in need of kind and careful treatment..