Investigatsiya is a service that deals with UFOs and other X-factors, so its employee Vladlen Saburov was quite surprised by a business trip to the small town of Mapryalsk, prompted by reports of some of its respectable citizens sleeping far too long.
He did not find any little green men there, but he did have to meet people in camouflage.
It turned out that the Sleepers were an object of interest to the GRU and the FSB, whose methods of obtaining information and protecting state secrets are well known.
So the trip with scientific aims very quickly took on the character of an assignment to a hot spot.