About the book: 1966 / Mikhail Demidenko is a young Leningrad prose writer. He was born in Voronezh, as a schoolboy he began studying in a literary circle led by the writer Yuri Goncharov, and as a schoolboy he began working as a freelance correspondent for the radio and newspaper Kommuna. M. Demidenko published his first story in 1952 in the literary almanac Voronezh, then the stories were published in the magazines “Neva” and “Zvezda”. In addition to short stories, the stories “Apricot Pit” and “I’ll Call You Yurka!” (published in separate books in Leningrad), M. Demidenko, together with his co-author, wrote film scripts for the films “The Guys from the Gunnersky” and “Michel and Mishutka».