Granin’s early literary experiments date back to the second half of the 1930s. In 1937, the magazine “Rezets” published his first stories “The Return of Rulyak” and “Homeland,” devoted to the Paris Commune. The beginning of his professional literary career, he considers the publication in 1949 in “Zvезда” of the story “Second Variant.” Granin’s first books were the novellas “Dispute Through the Ocean” (1950), “Yaroslav Dombrovsky” (1951), and a collection of essays about the builders of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Station, “New Friends” (1952).