The author of “The Sun Keeps Shining” — in the past, a pilot who lost his sight after being wounded in a battle with fascists at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
His novel “The Sun Keeps Shining” is well known to readers and enjoys great popularity. It is a story about how a young engineer, Sergey Tomilov, went blind in a mine accident. The terrible misfortune did not break Sergey. He finds the strength and courage to carry his grief. He is helped by devoted and faithful friends — Nikolay Ulagashev, the party organizer Makarov, Anya Tikhova, who loves Sergey with all her heart, and other good people whom V. Voroshilov portrays with great warmth.