The Stars Are Calling!

A story about a journey to a habitable planet carried out by a Russian expedition with the aim of raising the country’s prestige.

At sunset, sparkling in oblique sun rays, an anthracite helicopter landed in the courtyard of house No. 16, with a golden two-headed eagle on board—the sign of presidential communications. The children playing in the yard ran off to corners, but the two-meter tall uniformed courier with gold trim noticed them and, smiling, quietly asked: “Come on, who can tell me where Professor Lev Khristoforovich Mints lives?” He took out a chocolate candy from his upper pocket and showed it to the children. The children shouted over one another: “In the second apartment!”