Delivery Delays. Part Two

This novella by Gayevsky V.V. tells the story of the life of one young man who, after graduating from the Plekhanov Institute, was— in his opinion—distributed unsuccessfully in Moscow to some Prices Committee. The action takes place in the 1970s–1980s. After three years working at this Committee, our hero leaves without regrets for a research institute—with a salary decrease. His wife, and also the mother-in-law and father-in-law with whom he lived at the time, are terribly unhappy with his decision. “How,” they say to him, “can you have a good salary at the Committee, business trips—and suddenly some institute?” And how will you feed your family?” And then our hero begins frantically looking for extra work. The novella tells about the personal feelings of that distant time: how first he does sanitary clean-up of a forest in the Moscow region, and then delivers railway tickets. A modern reader will find it interesting to read how young people in the Soviet era lived, worked, and loved in a country like the USSR.