“Astrakhan Station” is one of Leonid Slovin’s earliest novellas. It tells about the work of the criminal investigation department of the transport police of the Astrakhan Station… about the first major case of the junior lieutenant Denísov, the criminal investigator—already familiar to readers from the books “Additional Arrivals Come on the Second Track” and “Five Days and the Next Morning”… about thefts from storage-cell boxes in automatic luggage rooms…