Crystal people. Notes about Soviet hockey made with love by a Saratov boy. 1947-2017

The author of the book is Stanislav Gridasov, a well -known sports journalist, founder of Sports.ru, former editor -in -chief of the magazine "PROSport". This is an unusual reading: in fact, there are two books under one cover at once. The first describes the phenomenon of the popularity of Soviet hockey through the eyes of a schoolboy who is in love with this game. The angle is not the most familiar, but it is it that allows the reader to feel the atmosphere of a long -disappeared world after several decades. Soviet hockey, Soviet life of the 1970s and 1980s, the native to the author of the city of Saratov is shown with such care and details that reading is turning into a real time in time-from our era into distant childhood. The second part is a detailed encyclopedia, in which, however, not only “goals, glasses, seconds” appear: 70 years of the history of Saratov hockey are given in the living context of the country and time. It is the combination of personal copyright memories and strict facts professionally presented that makes this “crystal” magical, giving the book a stereoscopic effect