Petr Shteyla, a pensioner, was going to a concert by Vika Tsyganova. He listened and then went to give flowers. And then the farm with lanterns suddenly breaks off. It falls. It kills the pensioner Petr Shteyla and the singer Vika Tsyganova.
Petr wakes up in the body of a namesake—the First Secretary of the Krasnoturinsk City Committee of the CPSU, Tishkov Petr Mironovich.
And fate carried him… well, you know. Now it has carried him to Kazakhstan. Wonderful place—Alma-Ata. Especially when apple trees are in bloom, and at the end of summer the famous Alma-Ata apples “Aport” ripen. There are also downsides: the capital of Kazakhstan was built in a very village-prone, dangerous place—and villages with hundreds of dead people are not uncommon. That’s exactly the kind of place where First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Petr Mironovich Tishkov, ended up—with his family.
He got out into the countryside for the holidays. Now he has to get out from under a seven-meter trap. The adventures of Petr Tishkov and Vika Tsyganova continue in the past. It’s 1969. The battles on Damansky Island have died down, but China hasn’t calmed down. And the Virgin Lands must be raised again. Yes, there’s plenty to do. Read on.