The Star of KEC

Scientists are bold people passionate about their work, sometimes not without quirks. But it is they who move humanity forward. Their lives cannot be called boring: the path to great discoveries is full of challenges and sometimes even deadly dangers.
In the next volume of the collected works of Alexander Belyayev, stories about unusual scientists included the novel "The Star of KEC", the novella "The Golden Mountain", and a number of short stories. Belyayev's heroes spend months exploring space on an artificial satellite, can extract gold from other chemical elements, control all bacteria on Earth, and more...