Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His novels, short stories, and notebooks have been translated into many languages, filmed, and studied at schools and universities. Dovlatov's surprisingly funny and at the same time piercingly sad prose has long become a classic and the writer is related to such masters of tragicomic prose as A. Chekhov, Taffy, A. Averchenko, M. Zoshchenko.The Dovlatov "Zone" consists of fourteen episodes from the lives of prisoners and their guards, stories of people living together behind barbed wire, told simply and with sobering humor, behind which one can clearly hear: "Hell is us."The texts are published in the latest version of the author.