"Two Captains" is V. Kaverin’s famous novel about research-travelers, celebrating the romance of scientific discovery.
The book received the USSR State Prize (1946) and has gone through more than a hundred reprints.
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"Two Captains" is a truthful and captivating story about the formation of the heroic character of a young man of the Soviet era.
The images of the main characters make it clear that you must fight with full exertion for the triumph of truth—without despair when temporary setbacks come, and without turning back in the face of difficulties. Polar pilot Sanya Grigoriev swore to fight and to seek, to find and not to give up already in childhood. And his most cherished dream is to find the missing-in-action Captain Tatarinov. And he won’t surrender—he won’t abandon his struggle, his desperate searches...