Igor Starkov
Writing
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An artist named Nikitin, who had come to Odessa to shoot a film, was the victim of a completely brazen attack. Only the intervention of a police sergeant who happened to be passing by saved him from certain death.
Lucrative Contract

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
The Long Farewell

1922 year. Khakassia. Fields. Former red partisan Fedor Polyntsev is taking his family to Minusinsk. On the way, a wounded Khakassia youth-herder comes across. Trying to give him first aid, Fedor is captured by the relatives of the herder, who considered him guilty of injuring the young man.
Last Year of Berkut

The young architect Severin Sereda receives a telegram with a message about his father’s serious illness. But he does not intend to go. Zhenya, his beloved girl, is outraged by such callousness, however, Severin explains that he gave the word to his deceased mother to never see his father who left her. Nevertheless, Zhenya manages to persuade Severin. He goes, but he doesn’t catch his father alive ...
The Search

Makartsev, who is serving a sentence for theft, suddenly confesses to a murder he once committed. The case is entrusted to investigator Sukhareva, who in the course of the investigation becomes convinced that many of the possible participants in the murder have put an end to their criminal past. However, some of them deny their involvement in the murder, which, as it turns out, and was not. The victim of the crime, whom everyone thought was murdered, is alive. The court must find out the degree of guilt of people who have long repented for the crime they committed.
A Case from Investigative Practice

The story of a boy who dreamed of becoming a pilot, but ended up in an artillery school. There he became the best cadet, and his dream of the sky still came true...
They Were Nineteen Years Old

A remote alert post in the Pacific Ocean. There, tsunamis often hit the shore, sweeping away everything in their path. It is the duty of seafarers to warn people about the impending danger. They must record tremors that can trigger a tsunami, and they are the first to be in danger. Seven sailors are on duty, the peaceful course of which is interrupted by the tsunami that struck the island. There are victims — now it is necessary to warn the mainland about the impending disaster...
Attention Tsunami!

Adventures of the boys of a pioneer camp during a summer camping trip. A new leader, Artem, a geophysics student and hiker, came to the pioneer group. He led the pioneers on a hike, which they had been doing for three summers in a row, in places they had long known and explored. And then the four friends, Gena, Dima, Pasha and Oleg, decided to escape from the group and go hiking on their own, but not just for fun, but for the sake of a great discovery. They dreamed of discovering "state-important ore," which, according to Dima, must be somewhere in the vicinity of Sinoe Lake. Far away from Sinoe Lake, the paths of the squad and the four friends converged. The boys didn't find the ore, though - Dima made it all up - but they did find a legendary tank whose trail was lost during the German-Soviet war. The boys decided to search for the unknown heroes and find out their names. The hike continued.
Secret

In the autumn of 1943, a factory school was set up in one of the rear towns to train turners. Teenagers evacuated from different cities who lost their parents during the war study and work here. The boys are helping the front with their selfless work...