Seventy-two degrees below zero.

Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1929-1989) wrote about people who chose a difficult and dangerous path in life - about polar explorers, firefighters, and travelers. He himself belonged to the same restless human breed: at a very young age, Sanin took part in the Great Patriotic War, after the war he graduated from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University, worked for a newspaper, became a writer, and visited the Arctic and Antarctica multiple times. The plots of his works are often based on real events, unfolding in non-trivial circumstances and closed communities (such as a ship's crew or an avalanche station). The book includes the famous cycle "The Call of the Polar Latitudes," consisting of five novellas, and the novel "The White Curse," which was adapted into a film in 1987. Vladimir Sanin's prose has inspired filmmakers more than once: notable adaptations include the film "Seventy-Two Degrees Below Zero" (1976) and the three-part TV series "Antarctic Tale" (1979).