About the book: 1960 / In the foothills of Kugitang, border guards find someone’s discarded clothes. It is clear to the head of the outpost and the young foreman Viktor Makarov, who arrived here from distant Ukraine, that an enemy has entered the construction site of a mountain sulfur mine. Sabotage began. Makarov and his comrades devote all their strength to the fight against saboteurs. At a construction site, food is difficult, malaria knocks you down, but nothing can stop the Komsomol members. In the story “Where There Was Silence,” Evgeny Krivenko shows the victory of the socialist system in the wild deserts of Central Asia. The book is interesting in plot, easy to read.