in the work of Nikolai Stanislavovich, it is valuable and interesting that he was able in small works - essays, stories - to show a huge Siberian region with a wide and versatile life boiling in it. The stories collected in this book show that N. S. Ustinovich in his best things justified the high requirements that a writer should always set for himself: in his works he reaches the correct image of human characters and the land in which he was born, lives and works, giving all his time to his favorite writing work. N. Emelyanova