The day-to-day life of most residents of Ural’s Bazhenovo is tied to a nuclear power plant, around which the city has been built. The power engineers devote themselves to their favorite profession, sometimes leaving out everything that makes a person whole: dreams, aspirations, family. And although not everyone manages to play the main role in their own life, fate sometimes gives a chance to rewrite an unsuccessful script. Not everyone, of course, is able to take advantage of it.
The collection “Stopping Crows on the Way South” completes the dilogy that began with the book “Distant Log. Ural Stories,” but these stories about loneliness and living with grief, the cost of passionate professionalism, and family values can be listened to separately.