Kruzhiliha

Classic Soviet literature.

From the author of the novels “The Satellites” and “Seryozha.”

Vera Panova is a three-time laureate of the Stalin Prize.

The novel “Kruzhilikha” takes place in the last months of the Great Patriotic War. In a workers’ town in the Urals, there is a major defense plant where the factory shops thunder day and night. There the war brought together people who were very different—but they are united by the desire to help the front. The novel is about people who brought victory closer through their work—about engineers, designers, yesterday’s schoolboys who had to grow up too early and stand at the machines alongside adults.

In a small provincial town live a worker named Evdokim and his wife Evdokia. Both are hardworking, practical, and diligent, but they have no children, so they took in adopted children. At first glance, their life may seem simple and ordinary—yet in reality it is full of strong passions, bright and important events that make you deeply sympathize with the characters.