Sovdetstvo. Prisoner of the Fifth Breakwater

«Sovdetstvo. Prisoner of the Fifth Breakwater» – a continuation of the cycle of «memoir» prose by the famous Russian writer Yuri Polyakov about his Soviet past. On the pages of the book, we once again meet our long-time acquaintance, the Moscow schoolboy Yura Poluyakov. In the summer of 1969, he, along with his relatives, is vacationing «in the wild» in the Abkhaz town of New Athos. The teenager is looking forward to the sun, sea, mountains, exciting underwater hunting, as well as a serious, very dangerous test of skill and courage, devised by his local friends. But, preparing for the «exam» in the underwater labyrinth of the fifth breakwater, the hero has no idea what a tough moral exam fate has in store for him. He cannot even imagine how his acquaintance on the train with the charming girl Zoya, who has a hairstyle «like a pageboy», just like the famous Mireille Mathieu...