About the book: 1955 / The author, the patriarch of Soviet science fiction, the “literary father” of the Strugatsky brothers, tried to describe the near future, when the Arctic is already populated and, in fact, is the sixteenth republic of the USSR, scientific progress has come close to the idea of ​​cloning and long-term freezing, the development of the world's oceans and the search for immortality are ahead. However, technological progress does not solve all problems. Enemies remain enemies, and only friendship and courage can open the way to the future. The discovery of the underwater mountain range named after Mikhail Lomonosov in the 1950s, the drifts of the first post-war Soviet Arctic stations “North Pole-2” and “North Pole-3” and industrial development The Arctic became the impetus for the creation of the science fiction story “The Secret of the Underwater Rock.” CONTENTS: 1. The mystery of the underwater rock. Science fiction story.2. Southern Lights. Science fiction story.3. Eng. V.M. Ehrlich. About G. Grebnev’s story “Southern Lights”».