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Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1928-1989) - neutomimyĭ puteshestvennik, pobyvavshiĭ v samykh nedostupnykh mestakh zemnogo shara - v Arktike, Antarktike i na ėkvatore, odin iz poslednikh sovetskikh romantikov, vospevavshiĭ dalʹnie stranstvii͡a i geroicheskie professii. Bolʹshinstvo ego knig posvi͡ashcheno mori͡akam i poli͡arnikam, o zhizni kotorykh avtor znal ne ponaslyshke. Takova voshedshai͡a v sbornik povestʹ "Oderzhimyĭ" o gibeli korabli͡a vo vremi͡a ėksperimentov po obledenenii͡u ili roman o pozharnykh, davshiĭ nazvanie vsemu sborniku. Vzi͡av za osnovu realʹnye sobytii͡a - pozhar v gostinit͡se "Rossii͡a", sluchivshiĭsi͡a v 1977 godu, - Sanin vpervye v khudozhestvennoĭ literature rasskazyvaet ob ėtoĭ slozhnoĭ professii. Sanina vsegda otlichal dobryĭ i tonkiĭ i͡umor, kotorym proniknuta ne tolʹko povestʹ "Ostrov Veselykh Robinzonov", v kotoroĭ postoi͡alʹt͡sy raspolozhennogo na ostrove sanatorii͡a pytai͡utsi͡a organizovatʹ "kommunu", no i sovsem na pervyĭ vzgli͡ad neveselai͡a istorii͡a - "Starye druzʹi͡a", povestvovanie o frontovikakh, kotorye cherez mnogo let posle voĭny vyi͡asni͡ai͡ut, kto iz ikh kompanii byl donoschikom, otpravivshim na gibelʹ v GULAG bezvinnogo cheloveka. V ėtom sbornike raskryvai͡utsi͡a raznye grani talanta Vladimira Sanina. Chelovek geroicheskoĭ biografii, on umel ne padatʹ dukhom v li͡uboĭ situat͡sii, i chitatelʹ knig Sanina obi͡azatelʹno usvoit ego glavnoe zhiznennoe i literaturnoe kredo: s veroĭ v luchshee otnositʹsi͡a k obstoi͡atelʹstvam, kotorye kazhutsi͡a nepreodolimymi.

Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1928-1989) was an indefatigable traveler who visited the most inaccessible places on the globe — in the Arctic, Antarctic and on the equator, one of the last Soviet romantics who glorified long-distance travel and heroic professions. Most of his books are devoted to sailors and polar explorers, whose lives the author knew firsthand. This is the story "Possessed", which is included in the collection about the death of a ship during icing experiments, or a novel about firefighters, which gave the name to the entire collection. Based on real events, such as the fire at the Rossiya Hotel in 1977, Sanin talks about this difficult profession for the first time in fiction. Sanin has always been distinguished by his kind and subtle humor, which is imbued not only with the story "The Island of the Merry Robinsons", in which the guests of the sanatorium located on the island try to organize a "commune", but also with a very sad story at first glance — "Old Friends", a narrative about front-line soldiers who, many years after the war, find out which of them Their company was an informer who sent an innocent man to his death in the GULAG. This collection reveals different facets of Vladimir Sanin's talent. A man of heroic biography, he knew how not to lose heart in any situation, and the reader of Sanin's books will surely learn his main life and literary credo: to treat circumstances that seem insurmountable with faith in the best.