About the book: 1964 / This edition includes the most significant works of Alexander Chakovsky: the trilogy “It Was in Leningrad” and the novel “It’s already morning for us.” The trilogy “It Was in Leningrad” (1944) is the first work of art by Alexander Chakovsky. The trilogy is dedicated to the feat of Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War. The unique lyrical and journalistic style of the trilogy was further developed in the novel “It’s already morning for us” (1949; USSR State Prize, 1950), imbued with the pathos of the socialist transformation of South Sakhalin in the post-war years.