Seventy Two Degrees Below Zero

Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1928—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: as a very young man, Sanin managed to... take part in the Great Patriotic War, and after the war, he graduated from the economics department of Moscow State University, worked at a newspaper, became a writer, and spent time beyond the Arctic Circle, in the Arctic and Antarctica. The plots of his works are often based on real events, unfolding in non-trivial circumstances and closed communities (such as, for example, the crew of a ship or an avalanche station). The book includes two novellas from the series "The Call of the Polar Latitudes": "Seventy Two Degrees Below Zero" (1975) and "For Those Who Are Drifting" (1978).