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And the short day lasts longer than a century. “And the day lasts longer than a century

Ch. Aitmatov - novel “Stormy Stop”. In this novel, Ch. Aitmatov raises the problem of historical memory, a person’s respect for his own roots, family, clan, and traditions. At the center of the story is the dramatic fate of a simple Kazakh railway worker Edigei Zhangeldin, nicknamed Buranny. The plot is the funeral of his only, dear friend Kazangap. However, the time frame of the novel is not limited to the present. We also see the hero’s past, the war and the difficult post-war period. Edigei had to endure a lot: he fought, and at the end of forty-four he was demobilized after a shell shock. Returning home, he learned of the death of his only child. And soon he met Kazangap, and he called him and his wife to the Buranny stop. I spent my whole life there. They experienced a lot together, Edigei and Kazangap, their children grew up together, there were both bitter and joyful moments. Kazangap gave Edigei a baby camel - Karanara. At the Buranny stop, Edigei met the teacher Abutalip Kuttybaev, whose whole meaning of life was in children, both his own and others. The teacher, who was captured during the war and fought in Yugoslavia, was taken away by the authorities as an unreliable person.

And Edigei experiences with bitterness this willfulness and lawlessness of the authorities, who want to depersonalize a person, deprive him of memory, thoughts about the past, the ability to think and reason. Here, for the first time, Aitmatov sounds the motif of the mankurt, a man without a past or future. So, in the description of the life of this Buran stop, the whole fate of the country appears before us - the Patriotic War, post-war repressions, hard work, the construction of a nuclear test site.

The heroes Aitmatova, Edigey, Kazangap, teacher Abutalip Kuttybaev are real workers who embody the moral principle in life. They are opposed by Sabitzhan, the son of the late Kazangap, a man concerned only with his own career and well-being. He is trying to bury his father anywhere, “he’s a sweet, all-knowing son, he didn’t come to bury his father, but just to get rid of it, bury it somehow and leave quickly.” Sabitzhan arrived empty-handed, without a family; his father’s funeral is not a grief for him, but an empty formality that he wants to get over with as quickly as possible. Edigei is bitter and ashamed for the son of his own friend. “What kind of people went, what kind of people! - Edigei was indignant in his soul. “Everything in the world is important to them, except death!” And this haunted him: “If death is nothing for them, then it turns out that life has no value. What is the meaning, why and how do they live there?

In the same way, Edigei becomes disgusted when he talks with a visitor “in chrome boots” who found counter-revolutionary agitation in the notes of teacher Kuttybaev.

The mankurt motif continues to develop in the novel and in the theme of scientific and technological progress. Thus, Sabitzhan dreams of a time when people can be controlled using radio: “A person will do everything according to a program from the center. It seems to him that he lives and acts on his own, according to his own free will, but in fact, according to instructions from above. And everything according to a strict schedule. You need to sing - signal - you will sing. If you want to dance, the signal is that you will dance.

We need you to work—you will work, and how!” But, according to the writer, the deprivation of a person’s individuality, his depersonalization is the result of violence against a person. “Remember your name” - this is the author’s thought that runs through the entire work. And the culmination of the development of this theme in the novel is the ancient legend about the Mankurts.

Let's remember the plot of the legend. The Ruanzhuans, who captured Sary-Ozeki in past times, turned their captives into mankurts by putting a shiri - a piece of rawhide camel skin - on their heads. Drying in the sun, the camel skin squeezed the slave's head, and the man lost his mind and became a mankurt. “Mankurt did not know who he was, where he came from, his tribe, he did not know his name, did not remember his childhood, his father and mother - in a word, Mankurt did not recognize himself as a human being. Deprived of an understanding of his own “I,” mankurt had a number of advantages from an economic point of view. He was equivalent to a dumb creature and therefore absolutely submissive and safe. He never thought about running away. For any slave owner, the worst thing is a slave uprising. Every slave is potentially a rebel. Mankurt was the only exception of his kind - the impulses for rebellion and disobedience were completely alien to him. He did not know such passions. And therefore there was no need to guard him, keep guard, and especially suspect him of secret plans. Mankurt, like a dog, recognized only his masters.”

One Naiman-Ana woman decided to find the son of Zholaman, who disappeared during the battle with the Ruanzhuans. And she found him - he became a mankurt, grazing his master’s cattle. She tried to restore his memory, told him his name, talked about herself and her father, sang lullabies, but the Ruanzhuans noticed her and gave her son a bow and arrows so that he could deal with his mother. Mankurt was told that this woman wanted to harm him by steaming his head. And Zholaman killed his mother with a bow shot.

By creating the image of a mankurt, the writer sets one of the most important themes in the novel. Mankurt is a person who does not remember his past, is not aware of his connection with people, and is not responsible for anything. A person who has lost his memory, deprived of spiritual connections with the world, according to the writer, cannot be called a person. The loss of spiritual ties with the past, with one’s land, with the traditions of ancestors - all this leads to the destruction of personality.

And the writer projects an ancient legend onto modernity. So, Kazangap cannot be buried in the ancient Ana-Beyit cemetery. They plan to demolish the churchyard because a new microdistrict will be built on this site. The funeral procession is simply not allowed into the old cemetery. Edigey cannot understand this, he is trying to save Ana-Beyit. He wants to go to the region and talk to the authorities. He asks Sabitzhan for help, but he refuses him, fearing for his own career. And the hero calls Sabitzhan a mankurt. During the funeral, Edigei reads a prayer and thinks bitterly about the youth, about how they will live without these prayers. The hero understands that there are moments in life when only prayer gives a person peace of mind, but the younger generation is deprived of all this...

The novel's narrative structure is varied. Aitmatov includes various legends (the legend of the mankurts, the legend of the singer Raimaly-aga), myths (the myth of Genghis Khan, the myth of the Donenbai bird). The real plan of the narrative alternates with the fantastic: everything that happens on earth is monitored by representatives of the planet Lesnaya Grud, cosmic forces do not remain indifferent to the good and evil deeds of people. Aitmatov tells us about a civilization that is superior to earthlings in its intelligence (there have never been wars on the planet). Residents of Lesnaya Gruda want to make friends with earthlings, they invited our cosmonauts to visit, but even here special instructions from the authorities followed. Ch. Aitmatov writes about this with bitter irony, even a bit of sarcasm: “...The commission that discussed the Forest Breast proposal, meanwhile, decided: not to allow the return of former parity cosmonauts; refuse to establish contacts with the Forest Breast and isolate the near-Earth space from a possible alien invasion with a hoop of rockets.”

The narrative of the story begins in the endless, deserted and deserted spaces of Sary-Ozeki. The main character is Edigei, a worker on the Boranla-Burannyi route.

One night, during his next shift, his wife unexpectedly ran into the closet, bringing unpleasant news about the death of his best friend Kazangap. Edigei met his friend about thirty years ago, when, after a shell shock, he had to look for work to feed himself and his family.

Kazangap, who met him, offered him a position as a switchman, albeit in a deserted and remote place. Kazangap helped Edigei and his wife settle in a new place and gave them a camel. The friends' families became very close friends; their children were inseparable.

With a heavy heart, Edigei realized that it was he who would have to bury his best friend. On his way home, he saw a rocket take off at an incredible speed at the nearest cosmodrome. It was an urgent flight, since no one had been in touch at the Paritet station for more than twelve hours.

Edigei decided to bury his comrade in a family cemetery thirty kilometers from their home. In the morning they prepared Kazangap's body and set off on their way to the cemetery. All the way Edigei remembered their youth, how they worked and lived together.

In turn, the astronauts who arrived at the station discovered that there was absolutely no one there. And the entire crew of the station went to an alien planet called Forest Breast. They wanted to make friends with extraterrestrial intelligence and give a return invitation. The station commission decided not to let back the missing cosmonauts and to fiercely rebuff anyone who tried to get closer to Earth.

And at this time, having reached the cemetery, Edigei and the entire procession ran into barbed wire, which blocked the passage. The guard explained to them that the burial site was closed and they were going to demolish it and build new houses here. And then with a heavy heart I had to bury my friend near the cemetery. This story reveals all the valuable human qualities that help people live in harmony and friendship, despite any obstacles.

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Trains in these parts ran from east to west and from west to east:

And on the sides of the railway in these parts lay great desert spaces - Sary-Ozeki, the Middle Lands of the Yellow Steppes. Edigei worked here as a switchman at the Boranly-Buranny junction. At midnight, his wife, Ukubala, sneaked into his booth to report the death of Kazangap.

Thirty years ago, at the end of forty-four, Edigei was demobilized after a shell shock. The doctor said: in a year you will be healthy. But for now he was physically unable to work. And then he and his wife decided to join the railway: maybe there would be a place for a front-line soldier as a security guard or watchman. We met Kazangap by chance, got into conversation, and he invited the young people to Buranny. Of course, the place is difficult - desolation and lack of water, sand all around. But anything is better than toiling without shelter.

When Edigei saw the crossing, his heart sank: on a deserted plane there were several houses, and then on all sides - the steppe: He did not know then that he would spend the rest of his life in this place. Of these, thirty years have been near Kazangap. Kazangap helped them a lot at first, gave them a camel for milking, and gave her a baby camel, which they named Karanar. Their children grew up together. They became like family.

And they will have to bury Kazangap. Edigei was walking home after his shift, thinking about the upcoming funeral, and suddenly he felt that the ground under his feet was shaking. And he saw how far in the steppe, where the Sarozek cosmodrome was located, a rocket rose like a fiery tornado. It was an emergency flight due to an emergency on the joint Soviet-American space station<Паритет>. <Паритет>has not responded to signals from the joint control center - Obtsenupra - for over twelve hours. And then ships urgently took off from Sary-Ozek and Nevada, sent to clarify the situation.

:Edigei insisted that the deceased be buried in the distant family cemetery of Ana-Beyit. The cemetery had its own history. The legend said that the Ruanzhuans, who captured Sary-Ozeki in past centuries, destroyed the memory of the captives with a terrible torture: putting a shiri - a piece of rawhide camel skin - on their heads. Drying under the sun, the shiri squeezed the slave’s head like a steel hoop, and the unfortunate man lost his mind and became a mankurt. Mankurt did not know who he was, where he was from, did not remember his father and mother - in a word, he did not recognize himself as a human being. He did not think about escaping, did the dirtiest, hardest work and, like a dog, recognized only his owner.

One woman named Naiman-Ana found her son turned into a mankurt. He tended his master's livestock. I didn’t recognize her, I didn’t remember my name, my father’s name:<Вспомни, как тебя зовут, - умоляла мать. - Твое имя Жоламан>.

While they were talking, the woman was noticed by the Ruanzhuans. She managed to hide, but they told the shepherd that this woman had come to steam his head (at these words the slave turned pale - for a mankurt there is no worse threat). They left the guy with a bow and arrows.

Naiman-Ana returned to her son with the idea of convincing him to run away. Looking around, I searched:

The arrow hit was fatal. But when the mother began to fall from the camel, her white scarf fell first, turned into a bird and flew away screaming:<Вспомни, чей ты? Твой отец Доненбай!>The place where Naiman-Ana was buried began to be called the Ana-Beyit cemetery - the Mother's Rest:

Early in the morning everything was ready. Kazangap's body, tightly swaddled in a thick felt felt, was placed in a trailed tractor cart. There were thirty kilometers one way, the same amount back, and a burial: Edigei rode ahead on Karanar, showing the way, a tractor with a trailer rolled behind him, and an excavator brought up the rear of the procession.

Various thoughts visited Edigei along the way. I remembered those days when he and Kazangap were in power. They did all the work that was needed while on the road. Now the young people are laughing: the old fools ruined their lives, for what? So it was for a reason.

:During this time, an examination was carried out<Паритета>arriving astronauts. They discovered that the parity astronauts servicing the station had disappeared. Then they found an entry left by the owners in the logbook. Its essence boiled down to the fact that the workers

Those at the station made contact with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization - the inhabitants of the planet Lesnaya Grud. The Lesnogrudians invited earthlings to visit their planet, and they agreed without informing anyone, including the flight directors, because they were afraid that for political reasons they would be prohibited from visiting.

And now they reported that they were on Lesnogrudka, talked about what they saw (the earthlings were especially shocked that there were no wars in the history of the owners), and most importantly, they conveyed the request of the Lesnogrudians to visit Earth. For this purpose, aliens, representatives of a technically much more advanced civilization than the earthly one, proposed creating an interstellar station. The world did not yet know about all this. Even the governments of the parties, informed about the disappearance of the astronauts, had no information about further developments of events. We were waiting for the commission's decision.

: Meanwhile, Edigei was recalling an old story that Kazangap wisely and honestly judged. In 1951, a family arrived on the move - a husband, wife and two boys. Abutalip Kuttybaev was the same age as Edigei. They did not end up in the Sarozek wilderness because of a good life: Abutalip, having escaped from a German camp, ended up in the forty-third among the Yugoslav partisans. He returned home without losing his rights, but then relations with Yugoslavia deteriorated, and, having learned about his partisan past, he was asked to apply.

information about dismissal of one's own free will. They asked in one place, in another: Having moved from place to place many times, the Abutalip family found themselves at the Boranly-Buranny junction. It seems that no one was forcibly imprisoned, but it seems that they were stuck in the Sarozeks for the rest of their lives. And this life was beyond their strength: the climate was difficult, the wilderness, the isolation. For some reason, Edigei felt sorry for Zarip most of all. But still, the Kuttybaev family was extremely friendly. Abutalip was a wonderful husband and father, and the children were passionately attached to their parents. They received help in their new place, and gradually they began to settle down. Abutalip now not only worked and took care of the house, not only fussed with the children, his and Edigei’s, but also began to read - after all, he was an educated man. He also began writing memories of Yugoslavia for children. This was known to everyone at the crossing.

By the end of the year, the auditor arrived, as usual. In between, he also asked about Abutalip. And some time after his departure, on January 5, 1953, a passenger train stopped at Buranny, which did not have a stop here, three people got out and arrested Abutalip. In late February it became known that the suspect Kuttybaev had died.

The sons waited for their father's return every day. And Edigei constantly thought about Zaripa with an inner readiness to help her in everything. It was painful to pretend it was nothing

He doesn’t feel anything special for her! One day he nevertheless told her:<Зачем ты так изводишься?.. Ведь с тобой все мы (он хотел сказать - я)>.

Here, with the onset of cold weather, Karanar became enraged again - he began to rut. Edigei had to go to work in the morning, and therefore he released Atan. The next day, news began to arrive: in one place, Karanar killed two male camels and separated four queens from the herd; in another, he drove the owner who was riding off a she-camel. Then from the Ak-Moinak crossing they asked in a letter to take the atan, otherwise they would shoot him. And when Edigei returned home riding Karanar, he learned that Zaripa and the children had left for good. He brutally beat Karanar, had a fight with Kazangap, and then Kazangap advised him to bow at the feet of Ukubala and Zaripa, who saved him from harm and preserved him and his dignity.

This is the kind of person Kazangap was, whom they were now going to bury. We were driving and suddenly came across an unexpected obstacle - a barbed wire fence. The guard soldier told them that he had no right to let them in without a pass. The chief of the guard confirmed the same and added that in general the Ana-Beyit cemetery is subject to liquidation, and in its place there will be a new microdistrict. Persuasion did not lead to anything.

Kandagapa was buried not far from the cemetery, in the place where Naiman-Ana had her great cry.

:The commission that discussed the Lesnaya Breast proposal, meanwhile, decided: not to allow the return of former parity cosmonauts; refuse to establish contacts with the Forest Breast and isolate the near-Earth space from a possible alien invasion with a hoop of rockets.

Edigei ordered the funeral participants to go to the patrol, and he decided to return to the guardhouse and get the big bosses to listen to him. He wanted these people to understand: you cannot destroy the cemetery where your ancestors lie. When there was very little left to the barrier, a bright flash of a menacing flame shot up into the sky nearby. Then the first combat robotic missile took off, designed to destroy any objects that approached the globe. After it, the second one rushed up, and another, and another: The rockets went into deep space to create a hoop around the Earth.

The sky fell on his head, opening up in clouds of boiling flame and smoke: Edigei and the camel and dog accompanying him, distraught, ran away. The next day, Buranny Edigei went to the cosmodrome again

And the day lasts longer than a century... Chingiz Aitmatov

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About the book “And the day lasts longer than a century...” Chingiz Aitmatov

Chingiz Aitmatov is an outstanding Kyrgyz and Russian writer. “And the Day Lasts Longer than a Century” is his first novel, which is based on more than one storyline.

The book begins simply: a hungry fox runs along the railway tracks in search of prey, and an elderly woman runs nearby, carrying the news of the death of the lonely old man Kazangap. Edigei, his old friend, takes responsibility for the funeral, deciding to bury his friend in the ancient and revered Ana-Beyit cemetery. The path to the cemetery is not close and you have to overcome it on camels. The path to the cemetery is filled with complex and difficult memories.

In parallel to these events, somewhere in space, on the international space station, two astronauts left their parting words to the inhabitants of the earth in a logbook. They wrote that fate gave them the chance to visit the planet Lesnaya Grud. The Lesnogrudians lived on it, who were able to create peace and harmony on their planet, without resorting to wars and forgetting about diseases. The Lesnogrudians also expressed a desire to visit Earth and see the life of earthlings. The astronauts themselves disappeared without a trace.

Chingiz Aitmatov was very fond of turning to mythology in his works, and in the novel “And the Day Lasts Longer than a Century” he touches on the legend of the Mankurts. The young mankurt was captured and, through torture with a camel's stomach, deprived of his memory and reason, making him an obedient slave. The boy’s mother did not know where her son was, because the body was never found on the battlefield and she refused to believe in the death of her child. After some time, she hears the wanderers talking about a stupid and naive shepherd and realizes that they are talking about her son. The woman decides to find her son and bring him home, but will he recognize her and go with her?

“And the Day Lasts Longer than a Century” was first published in 1980. In it, Chingiz Aitmatov touches on such serious issues as changing one’s understanding of the world order to create a better world (the world of the Lesnogrudians) and maintaining respect for ancestors and their traditions. The author touched upon the past, present and future of man in one work.

“And the day lasts longer than a century” shows that the connection of times in a person’s life is inevitable. Arriving at the cemetery, Edigei discovers instead a fence with barbed wire. The old man was outraged and discouraged, because this is disrespect for ancestors, for traditions, disrespect for the past. Meanwhile, behind the fence, a rocket launched, intending to destroy any object that approaches the Earth from space.

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Quotes from the book “And the day lasts longer than a century...” Chingiz Aitmatov

...it will take a long time for people to overcome this vice in themselves - hatred of the individual in a person.

If they take your goodness away from you, you won’t perish, you’ll survive. But the soul will remain trampled, nothing can make up for this.

Listening to Abutalip’s statements, Edigei came to the conclusion that the best thing a person can do for others is to raise worthy children in his family. And not with anyone’s help, but on your own, day after day, step by step, putting all of yourself into this matter, being, as far as possible, with the children.

... I want to say so that you know, and you already know, but I will still say: I have always missed and always miss you. And the worst thing I’m afraid of is not losing my head in battle, but losing my melancholy, losing it. I kept thinking, while leaving with the troops, first in one direction, then in the other, how to separate my melancholy from myself, so that it would not perish with me, but would remain with you. And I couldn’t think of anything, but I dreamed that my melancholy would turn into either a bird, or maybe an animal, into something so alive, so that I could hand it into your hands and say - here, take this, this is mine. longing, and may it always be with you. And then I’m not afraid to die. And now I understand - my son was born from my longing for you. And now he will always be with you.

…. There are individual cases, individual destinies of people that become the property of many, because the price of that lesson is so high, that history contains so much, that what was experienced by one person, as it were, spreads to everyone who lived at that time, and even on those who come after much later.

Only, it seems to me, you yourself don’t understand what you want. Well, okay, let’s say you left, but you can’t leave yourself. No matter where you disappear, you will not escape your misfortune. She will be with you everywhere. No, Edigei, if you are a horseman, then try to overcome yourself here. And leaving is not courage. Everyone can leave. But not everyone can cope with themselves.

And he also thought that regardless of whether there is a God in the world or not at all, people remember him for the most part when they feel the urge, although it is inappropriate to do so. That is probably why it is said that an unbeliever will not remember God until his head hurts. Whether it is true or not, you still need to know prayers.

For small children, adults always seem smart and authoritative. They grow up, they look - but the teachers didn’t know so much and weren’t as smart as they seemed.

If you're not born, you won't see the light, but if you're born, you won't get away with it.

Trains in these parts ran from east to west and from west to east...

Thirty years ago, at the end of forty-four, Edigei was demo-billed after a shell shock. The doctor said: in a year you will be healthy. But for now he was physically unable to work. And then he and his wife decided to go to work on the railway: maybe there would be a place for a front-line worker as a security guard or watchman. We met Kazan-gap by chance, got into a conversation, and he invited the young people to Buranny. Of course, the place is difficult - desolation and lack of water, sand all around. But anything is better than toiling around without shelter.

When Edigei saw the crossing, his heart sank: there were several houses on the deserted plain, and then on all sides - the steppe... He did not know then that he would spend the rest of his life in this place. Thirty years of this was near Kazan-Gap. Kazangap helped them a lot at first, gave them a female camel for milking, and gave a female camel from her, who was named Kara-nar. Their children grew up together. They became like family.

And they will have to bury Kazan-gap. Edigei was walking home after his shift, thinking about the upcoming funeral and suddenly felt that the ground under his feet was shaking and he saw how far in the steppe, where Saro was located -zek spaceport, a rocket rose like a fiery tornado. It was an emergency flight in connection with an emergency at the joint Soviet-American space station Paritet. “Parity” did not respond to signals from the joint control center - Obtse-nupra - for over twelve to twelve hours. And then the ships from Sary-Ozek and Nevada, sent to clarify the situation, urgently set off.

Edigei insisted that the deceased be buried in the distant family cemetery of Ana-Beyit. The cemetery had its own history. The legend said that the Zhuan-Zhuans, who captured Sary-Ozeki in past centuries, destroyed the memory of the captives with a terrible torture: putting a shiri on the head - a piece of raw-mint camel skin. Drying under the sun, the width squeezed the slave's head like a steel hoop, and the unfortunate man lost his mind and became a mankurt. Mankurt did not know who he was, where he was from, did not remember his father and mother - in a word, he did not recognize himself as a person. He did not think about escaping, did the dirtiest, hardest work and, like a dog, recognized only his owner.

One woman named Naiman-Ana found her son turned into a mankurt. He tended the owner's livestock. I didn’t recognize her, I didn’t remember my name, my father’s name... “Remember what your name is,” the mother begged. “Your name is Zholaman.”

While they were talking, the woman was noticed by the Zhuan-Zhuans. She managed to hide, but they told the shepherd that this woman had come to steam his head (at these words the slave turned pale - for a mankurt there is no worse threat). The guy was left with a bow and arrows.

Naiman-Ana returned to her son with the idea of convincing him to run away. Looking around, I searched...

The arrow hit was fatal. But when the mother began to fall from the camel, her white scarf fell first, turned into a bird and flew away shouting: “Remember, whose are you? Your father is Donenby! The place where Naiman-Ana was buried began to be called the Ana-Beyit cemetery - the Mother's rest...

Early in the morning everything was ready. Kazan-gap’s body, tightly wrapped in thick felt, was placed in a trailed tractor cart. There were thirty kilometers one way, the same amount back, and a stopover... Edigei rode ahead on Kara-nar, showing the way, a tractor with a trailer rolled behind him, and an excavator brought up the rear of the procession .

Various thoughts visited Edigei along the way. I remembered those days when he and Kazan-gap were in power. They did all the work that was necessary at the crossing. Now the young people are laughing: the old fools ruined their lives, for what? So it was for a reason.

During this time, the Par-Theta was examined by arriving cosmonauts. They discovered that the parity-cosmonauts serving the station had disappeared. Then they discovered the entry left by the owner in the logbook. Its essence boiled down to the fact that those working at the station had contact with representatives of extraterrestrial civilization - the inhabitants of the planet Lesnaya Grud. The Lesno-grudians invited earthlings to visit their planet, and they agreed without informing anyone, including the flight directors, because they were afraid that the political For some reason they will be prohibited from visiting.

And now they reported that they were on Lesnaya Grudya, talked about what they saw (the earthlings were especially shocked that there were no wars in the history of the owners), and most importantly, they conveyed the request of the Lesnaya Gruda residents to the village -thick the Earth. For this purpose, the aliens, representatives of a technologically much more advanced civilization than the earthly one, proposed to create an interstellar station. The world did not yet know about all this. Even the governments of the parties, informed about the disappearance of the cosmonauts, had no information about the further development of events. We were waiting for the commission's decision.

Meanwhile, Edigei was remembering an old story that Kazangap wisely and honestly judged. In 1951, a family arrived on the move - a husband, wife and two boys. Abutalip Kutty-baev was the same age as Edigei. They did not end up in the Saro-zek wilderness because of a good life: Abutalip, having escaped from a German camp, ended up in the forty-third among the Yugoslav partisans. He returned home without losing his rights, but then relations with Yugoslavia deteriorated, and, having learned about his partisan past, he was asked to submit an application for dismissal under own desire. They asked in one place, in another... Moving from place to place many times, the Abuta-lipa family found themselves at the Boranly-Buranny junction. It seems that no one was forcibly imprisoned, but it seems that they were stuck for life in the sarozeks. And this life was beyond their strength: the climate is difficult, deafness, isolation. For some reason, Edigei felt sorry for Zarip most of all. But still, the Kutta-baev family was extremely friendly. Abutalip was a wonderful husband and father, and the children were passionately attached to their parents. They received help in their new place, and gradually they began to settle down. Abutalip now not only worked and took care of the house, not only fussed with the children, his and Edigei’s, but also began to read - after all, he was an educated person. He also began writing memoirs about Yugoslavia for children. This was known to everyone on the road.

By the end of the year, the auditor arrived, as usual. In between, he also asked about Abuta-lipa. And some time after his departure, on January 5, 1953, a passenger train stopped at Buranny, which had no stop here, three people got out of it and arrested Abuta-lipa . In the last days of February it became known that Kutty-baev, who was under investigation, had died.

The sons waited for their father's return every day. And Edigei constantly thought about Zaripa with an inner readiness to help her in everything. It was painful to pretend that he didn’t feel anything special for her! One day he nevertheless said to her: “Why are you going to such trouble?.. After all, we are all with you (he wanted to say - me).”

Here, with the onset of cold weather, Karanar became enraged again - he began to rut. Edigei had to go to work in the morning, and therefore he released Atan. The next day, news began to arrive: in one place, Karanar killed two male camels and took four queens from the herd; in another, he drove the owner, who was riding on horseback, off the camel. Then, from the Ak-Moinak junction, they asked in a letter to take away the atan, otherwise they would shoot him. And when Edigei returned home riding Kara-Nara, he found out that Zaripa and the children had all left. He brutally beat Kara-nar, had a fight with Kazangap, and then Kazangap advised him to bow at the feet of Ukubala and Zaripa, who saved him from harm, preserved him and their dignity .

This is the kind of person Kazangap was, whom they were now going to bury. We were driving and suddenly came across an unexpected obstacle - a fence made of barbed wire. The guard soldier told them that he had no right to enter without a pass. The chief of the guard confirmed the same and added that in general the Ana-Beyit cemetery is subject to liquidation, and in its place there will be a new micro-district. Persuasion did not lead to anything.

Kazan-gapa was buried not far from the cemetery, in the place where Naiman-Ana had her great cry.

The commission that discussed Lesnaya Grudya’s proposal, meanwhile, decided: not to allow the return of former parity cosmonauts; refuse to establish contacts with the Forest Breast and isolate the near-Earth space from a possible alien invasion with a hoop of rockets.

Edigei ordered the funeral participants to go to the patrol, and he decided to return to the guardhouse and get the big authorities to listen to him. He wanted these people to understand: you cannot destroy the cemetery where your ancestors lie. When there was very little left to the barrier-baum, a bright flash of a menacing flame shot up into the sky nearby. Then the first combat robotic missile took off, designed to destroy any objects approaching the globe. After her, the second one rushed up, and another, and another... The rockets went into deep space to create a hoop around the Earth.

The sky collapsed on his head, opening up in clouds of boiling flame and smoke... Edigei and the camel and dog that accompanied him, distraught, ran away. The next day, Buranny Edigei again went to the cosmodrome.