Andrey Shcherbakov

The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.

Aviation engineer Viktor Rosanov dreams of getting behind the controls of an airplane - he is sure that this is the only way he can realize his capabilities. The plant's management sends Rosanov to the North and instructs him to prepare a new aircraft for flights. He performs the task brilliantly, and when he returns, he is appointed head of the airport and is included in the flight crew lists. But now Victor is not sure that heaven is the only way of his life.

Demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enrolls in a university. His father is arrested based on a slanderous denunciation. The hero himself, as the son of an “enemy of the people,” is expelled from the party and the university...