"Sovdetstvo. The Prisoner of the Fifth Breakwater" is a continuation of the cycle of "memorable" prose by the famous Russian writer Yuri Polyakov about his Soviet past. On the pages of the book, we meet again with our old acquaintance, a Moscow schoolboy Yura Poluyakov. In the summer of 1969, he and his relatives rested as a "savage" in the Abkhazian town of Novy Athos. The teenager is waiting for the sun, the sea, the mountains, an exciting underwater hunting, as well as a serious, very dangerous test of skill and courage, invented by his local friends. But while preparing for the "ordeal" in the underwater labyrinth of the fifth breakwater, the hero does not even suspect what a tough moral exam fate will prepare for him. He can't even imagine how his acquaintance on the train with the charming girl Zoya, tonsured "like a page", like the famous Mireille Mathieu, will end for him.…