The Mine

When Vanya, a marketer by profession and an adventurer by nature, was offered to go looking for an old mine in the taiga, he couldn’t refuse. He didn’t have money for a vacation abroad, and a vacation at home on the couch was hardly an appealing pastime. The story is based on real facts; it took second place in the contest “Obvious—Unlikely” based on readers’ voting on the site “Fantastika.rf,” and third place by the judges.