“The Beginning of Times” is a science-fiction post-apocalyptic novel by Sergey Panchenko, the second book in the “Wind” cycle. A group of tourists sent to the Putorana Plateau and the shift on duty at a launch mine equipped with a unified command post were fortunate enough to survive a deranged hurricane. But surviving is only the first step—you have to learn how to survive. The stories of the heroes’ complex adaptation are interwoven with a plot about people living a hundred years after the catastrophe.