About the book: 1967 / The famous Ural writer Stanislav Meleshin has his own theme, his own hero, his own path of artistic revelation of the spiritual growth of our contemporary. The author’s attention is directed to the most various spheres of life of Soviet people: daily work, public and personal relationships, everyday life, family, education of feelings. In the book “The Shot Wind” offered to the reader, many characters with dissimilar destinies and characters are presented. The author talks about the eventful life of Soviet people and about the acutely dramatic struggle that took place during the years of the establishment of Soviet power in the Southern Urals, about complex human relationships, aggravated by political and social changes among the Ural Cossacks. Addressing the problems of human development in the story “Taiga Shot ", the writer consistently, step by step, draws out each psychological train of thought of the hero that defines him as a person. In the story "Working People" the author admires the man of labor and at the same time forces the heroes in a complex life full of contradictions to pass a kind of exam, thereby demanding from every answer to the question whether he can be called a man, whether he has the right to bear the proud name of a worker. Refusal of philistine existence, readiness to keep up with the times, a creative attitude to his work, searching for the right place in life - these are the main problems moral foundations decided and approved by the author of the book “The Shot Wind».