About the book: 1959 / Science fiction story "Prisoners of the Burning Abyss" is a fascinating story about the feat of Soviet engineers and scientists who, using an underground rover, penetrate to the center of the earth, make extraordinary scientific discoveries explain in a new way the reasons for the movement of continents, the occurrence of earthquakes and other mysterious phenomena associated with the life of our planet. The author of the story, Boris Zakharovich Fradkin, was born in 1917 in Chelyabinsk. He graduated from the institute in 1945. He worked in Perm and other regions of the country as an engineer and designer. In 1953 B.3. Fradkin moved to teaching at the Perm Mechanical Engineering College, where he still works. B. Fradkin’s first story “Socket Wrench” was published in the Perm almanac “Prikamye” in 1950. In 1951, a collection of his stories and short stories entitled “Responsible Representative” was published. Since 1954, B.3. Fradkin writes science fiction works: the stories “The Story of One Notebook”, “The Mystery of Asteroid 117-03” and the novel “The Road to the Stars”».