About the book: 1961 / Stanislav Meleshin - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Born in 1928 in the Penza region in the village of Belogorka. In 1930, the family moved to the construction site of Magnitogorsk. Here S. Meleshin began his creative journey. While serving in the Soviet Army in 1955, he graduated from the Literary Institute in absentia.S. Meleshin is known to the reader from the books: “Pache, Ruma!”, “Family People”, “Three in the Taiga”, “Taiga Shot”, “Lightning in the Bird Cherry”, etc. S. Meleshin’s new book includes the stories - “It Happened at sea", "Lyubava" and two stories - "Second Life" and "In the Northern City". The heroes of the story "It Happened by the Sea" are Okhotsk fishermen. The author tries to trust the reader to think about where stern, courageous people come from: four soldiers, torn off from the shore by the ocean, the first cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin. In the story “Lyubava” the author talks about a brave, proud steppe girl, about love, beautiful and tragic, shows , how the team of a carpenter’s team grows stronger through work, how rude, stern people begin to protect the first feeling of their comrade. In the story “Second Life” S. Meleshin shows people living a second life, who find happiness after the bitterness of their first mistakes and failures. Now Art. Meleshin is working on a novel about his contemporaries.