About the book: 1980 / To follow the heroes of A. Belyaninov’s book, you would have to travel many thousands of kilometers, transfer from a car to a camel, from an airplane to a reindeer sled ... Yakut taiga and Karakum... Mangyshlak - eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, Caucasus, Alma-Ata, Northern Kazakhstan. All this is connected with simple and significant everyday stories, with people who, without further ado, quietly refute the very concepts of “desert”, “wilderness”. A. Belyaninov’s book “The Still Earth” is made up of stories and short stories written by the author in different years of his life. literary work.