Тайна Урулгана

Vremi͡a deĭstvii͡a - 1913 god. Ėto zakhvatyvai͡ushchai͡a istorii͡a ocharovatelʹnoĭ anglichanki Veroniki, otpravivsheĭsi͡a v dalekui͡u Sibirʹ na poiski propavsheĭ ėkspedit͡sii ott͡sa, kapitana Smita, i ne podozrevai͡ushcheĭ, kakie zagadochnye i neozhidannye sobytii͡a zhdut ee vperedi. Odno iz nikh - padenie Urulganskogo meteorita. Kotoryĭ okazyvaetsi͡a vovse ne meteoritom, a poterpevshim krushenie kosmicheskim korablem s astronavtom na bortu. I vot ona - taĭna Vselennoĭ, o kotoroĭ tak khotelosʹ by povedatʹ li͡udi͡am! N gotovo li chelovechestvo prini͡atʹ ee, a vmeste s neĭ i predskazannoe tragicheskoe budushchee Zemli? Kto spaset planetu: galakticheskie prishelʹt͡sy - ili ėto po silam samim zemli͡anam?Kompʹi͡uter vydal Ronu posledni͡ui͡u informat͡sii͡u: vozmozhnai͡a dlitelʹnostʹ ego zhizni pri nastoi͡ashchikh uslovii͡akh - semʹ chasov pli͡us-minus desi͡atʹ minut.I vse.Poroĭ on teri͡al soznanie, prodolzhai͡a pri ėtom oshchushchatʹ, kak dvizhetsi͡a vremi͡a. I v ego soznanii otshchelkivali sekundy - slishkom bystro. Vse, chto proiskhodilo s nim, bylo nemyslimo, on ne mog umeretʹ zdesʹ, na krai͡u Vselennoĭ. Bessledno.Vprochem, net. Professor Mi͡uller so vremenem vytashchit ego korablʹ na sukhoe mesto, dazhe perevezet v muzeĭ i budet voditʹ k nemu ėkskursii, a sam stanet mirno staretʹ vozle svoego Velikogo otkrytii͡a. Vprochem, uspeet li on vytashchitʹ korablʹ iz bolota? Vedʹ na Zemle skoro nachnetsi͡a mirovai͡a voĭna, a k kont͡su ee nikomu ne budet dela do inoplanetnykh korableĭ.A eshche cherez neskolʹko let boloto okonchatelʹno zati͡anet v svoi͡u glubʹ metallicheskiĭ shar, i, kogda v kont͡se dvadt͡satykh godov si͡uda doberetsi͡a novai͡a ėkspedit͡sii͡a, ona tak i ne smozhet razgadatʹ taĭny urulganskogo meteorita...Kir Bulychev

The time of action is 1913. This is an exciting story of a charming Englishwoman Veronica, who went to distant Siberia in search of the missing expedition of her father, Captain Smith, and did not suspect what mysterious and unexpected events await her ahead. One of them is the fall of the Urulgan meteorite. Which turns out to be not a meteorite at all, but a crashed spaceship with an astronaut on board. And here it is - the secret of the Universe, which I would so like to tell people about! Is humanity ready to accept it, and with it the predicted tragic future of the Earth? Who will save the planet: galactic aliens - or is it possible for the earthlings themselves?The computer gave Ron the latest information: the possible duration of his life under the present conditions is seven hours plus or minus ten minutes.That's all.Sometimes he lost consciousness, while continuing to feel time moving. And the seconds ticked off in his mind-too fast. Everything that was happening to him was unthinkable, he could not die here, at the edge of the universe. Without a trace.However, no. Professor Muller will eventually pull his ship to a dry place, even transport it to a museum and take excursions to it, and he will peacefully grow old near his Great Discovery. However, will he have time to pull the ship out of the swamp? After all, a world war will soon begin on Earth, and by the end of it no one will care about alien ships.And in a few more years, the swamp will finally pull a metal ball into its depths, and when a new expedition gets here in the late twenties, it will not be able to unravel the secrets of the Urulgan meteorite...Kir Bulychev