Aleksei Volkov

Denis Skvortsov, for whom football is not just a game, is seventeen years old, he is deeply in love, he is famous and respected among his peers, he is a leader. He has something to lose in a fight with a rich sponsor.

Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other.

In the ninth grade, a new one appeared. The closed guy subjugated himself to a single purpose - to decipher the mysterious letters of the disappeared Toltec tribe. Without devoting anyone except a teacher from his former school to his research, the hero dooms himself to a misunderstanding of those around him ...

A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison...