The Osoaviakhim Pentagram
13 hrs. 35 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Berezin
Author
Vladimir Berezin
Narrator
Egor Partin
Narrator
Egor Partin
Description
On some buildings in St. Petersburg and Moscow, you can still see a mysterious emblem—a star surrounded by gears, gas cylinders, propellers, hammers, and rifles. This symbol, known as “We Fortify the Defense of the USSR,” belongs to the Society for Assistance to the Defense, Aviation, and Chemical Construction, which existed from 1927 to 1948. Starting in 1937, such stars marked houses whose residents were involved in defense initiatives. Now this sign embodies a completed Soviet project and appears like a mysterious hieroglyph through flaking paint.
The book “The Pentagram of Osoaviakhim” tells about the mystical aspects of the Great Soviet Endeavor, surpassing any alchemical experiments, where a striving for justice and fear of pointless victims, heroism and self-sacrifice, mistakes and great achievements intertwine. The book’s characters are connected, but each lives their own life. Surganov rejects the idea of sacrificing for a new god—Cthulhu. The boys Bolshoy Minin and Malyonkiy Lyapunov try to see a new metro station, but end up in Moscow of another era. The heroes imagined by one of the characters come to life and become part of reality.
The author, Berezin, who calls himself a mystic, skillfully works with optics, allowing the reader to notice the unusual in the surrounding world together with him. The supernatural here isn’t the main theme, but it’s hinted between the lines—like a mysterious star on the walls of houses.
The book “The Pentagram of Osoaviakhim” tells about the mystical aspects of the Great Soviet Endeavor, surpassing any alchemical experiments, where a striving for justice and fear of pointless victims, heroism and self-sacrifice, mistakes and great achievements intertwine. The book’s characters are connected, but each lives their own life. Surganov rejects the idea of sacrificing for a new god—Cthulhu. The boys Bolshoy Minin and Malyonkiy Lyapunov try to see a new metro station, but end up in Moscow of another era. The heroes imagined by one of the characters come to life and become part of reality.
The author, Berezin, who calls himself a mystic, skillfully works with optics, allowing the reader to notice the unusual in the surrounding world together with him. The supernatural here isn’t the main theme, but it’s hinted between the lines—like a mysterious star on the walls of houses.
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