This book will help you take a fresh look at the story of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Monday begins on Saturday". The authors themselves have repeatedly repeated that they wrote only a cabbage patch, a collection of funny jokes. However, this is not just an original work that managed to combine the realities of the Soviet Research Institute and fabulous folklore, not only a work in the fantasy genre at a time when even such a term did not exist in Soviet literature, this is a picture of an entire era, designated by one word "the sixties", portraits of people of that time — naive and strange "sixties". Dozens, hundreds of little things — hobbies, clothes, fashion, manner of communication, the realities of the Soviet Research Institute with its special culture, work and relationships at work and outside it are, as it were, casually soldered into the text. There is a canteen menu, an assortment of store shelves, a place, a wall newspaper, modest salaries and ridiculous expenses for unnecessary departments and topics, job application forms, a world in which, despite all the talents and even the genius of scientists, administrative laws, due to their specific inflexibility, are more effective than natural and magical patterns.Well, in addition to the characteristic attributes of time, the dreams of these "sixties" are "sewn" into the text: a new cheap tape recorder is twice as cheap as the real one), fashionable clothes, a "rich" Aldan calculating machine, which in principle did not exist and does not exist in nature, instead of the existing Aldan military complex. And books, books, books are the true treasures of that time. The echoes of discoveries made in the 20th century, recently released films, and the inspiration of the time of the first space flights create a special background for this bright book.