Wolf place

The collection of reports of the correspondent of the "Novaya Gazeta" of Elena Racheva seems to belong to the recognizable genre of gloomy stories about the life of the Russian hinterland. However, from the amorphous darkness of its usual representatives, the Wolf Place is distinguished by grace, some high anecdotality of the plots themselves. Racheva talks about how former guards, former prisoners and their children get along in the Siberian town, where there was once a camp, what Chelyabinsk residents think about Chelyabinsk meteorite, how there is a half-abandoned town, once located in the BAM construction center, and the village of SKHELOVKA Where Gagarin landed. All these stories have a common structure: they are about the places that the great story left, but where there is still life