As the Steel Was Tempered. Ostrovsky N.

Olga Margolina, an atypical representative of Silver Age, the author of many books, including the great hydroelectric stations of the Soviet Union, which she built, about her colleagues in hydraulic equipment, about her beloved Petersburg, about her travels and adventures in dozens of countries, introduces herself readers of the new book with memorable days of biography.

Birthday, each person spends their own way, some are retireed and comprehending their life, others are looking forward to congratulations from friends and relatives, others must celebrate this day with the family. The author of the book tried to spend this day if possible in an unusual place or in an unusual way. The diaries that she leads all her life helped to collect these special “red” days and build them in chronological sequence in decades.

In all stories, inaccessible information about “atypical” places is involved, which makes them interesting, and the use of dialogues between the participants in the “birthdays” revive the text, filling it with humor and lyricism. The reader has the opportunity to monitor the change (or stability) of the author’s character against the background of a changing era. The living conditions in the 21st century allowed the author - an obvious optimist - to expand the horizons of what he saw and understand that the world is beautiful everywhere, our task is to preserve it.