About the book: year / "Post-war life proceeded quietly and peacefully in a provincial town far from the capital and industrial centers. Biysk turned 244 years old in 1953 and its future seemed , predetermined by the secondary role of similar Siberian settlements, but it was this year, known in history as the year of the death of the great leader, that became a turning point for the city in its fate. On June 13, 1953, the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR decided to create a Ministry of Metallurgical Construction in the system. and chemical enterprises of construction and installation trust No. 122 and entrusted it with the construction of enterprises of the military-industrial complex. First of all, a complex of enterprises began to be built, the so-called mailbox No. 47. But at that time, of course, everything was kept secret, and even the city residents did not know what kind of construction was taking place on the western outskirts of Biysk."