Soviet Childhood. The Prisoner of the Fifth Breakwater

«Soviet Childhood. The Prisoner of the Fifth Breakwater» – the continuation of the cycle of «memorial» prose by the famous Russian writer Yuri Polyakov about his Soviet past. On the pages of the book, we again meet our old acquaintance,... Moscow schoolboy Yura Poluyakov. In the summer of 1969, he, along with his relatives, is vacationing «wild» in the Abkhazian town of New Athos. The teenager is looking forward to the sun, sea, mountains, exciting underwater hunting, as well as a serious, very dangerous test of skill and courage devised by his local friends. However, while preparing for the «exam» in the underwater maze of the fifth breakwater, the hero does not even suspect what a harsh moral exam fate has in store for him. He cannot even imagine how his acquaintance on the train with the charming girl Zoya, whose haircut is «in the style of a page boy», like the famous Mireille Mathieu, will end for him...