About the book: 1987 / The book of the famous Soviet Arabist historian and journalist A. M. Vasiliev is a collection of travel essays about countries that the author had the opportunity to visit as correspondent of Pravda, as well as as part of delegations of the Soviet public. The reader is presented with a wide panorama of events that took place in Vietnam, Turkey, Egypt, Sirin, YAR, PDRY and other countries of the East over the past 20–30 years. The author draws memorable images of the heroes of the Vietnamese epic, the builders of a new society in the south of Arabia, shows the specifics of the situation in oil producing countries.