Sea vagabonds

    A collection of stories "Sea Vagabonds" introduces the reader to the difficult life of cadets at the marine school of the fifties-sixties years of the last century, which, to rise to the bridge of the steamship captain of long-distance navigation, had to study for six years to be put on the programme disciplines, and during marine practices to get acquainted with the work of each member of the ship's crew, as the future captain must know everything about the ship. During these trips, the cadets worked as simple sailors, travelled all the seas and oceans, visited all the continents, passed the seas of the Arctic Ocean, "took" the stars and solved astronomical problems in the southern latitudes, met with local natives on uninhabited islands and by the end of the school already felt themselves real "sea wolves".
    "Children's Stories" and "Northern Lights" give the modern reader the opportunity to get acquainted with the northern nature, the hard life of local residents in remote villages, where the snow completely covered the houses, where there was no electricity, but only candles or paraffin lamps. And it is hard to believe that all this happened quite recently - in the forties and fifties, when the whole country was overcoming the post-war devastation, building power plants and factories, and these remote areas remained in the century before last.