The author served in the border troops for many years. This gave him the opportunity to accumulate a lot of factual material, which formed the basis of the proposed book. Everything is here: service dogs on the trail, and shots, and other accessories of adventure literature. But a characteristic feature of the "Border" is the display of border everyday life. The focus is on the education of soldiers. The reader will get acquainted with this in the diary notes "From the Notebook." The story "There was a soldier..." - about the fate of the demobilized border guard.