Zhuravlev, Viktor Alekseevich (1958)
Berdichevskii, Iakov Isaakovich (1936), preface
Razvedbat. Rasskazy. Kiev, [Maister Knig [Privately printed]], 2012. 256 p., b/w plates. €25,00
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8 vo, publisher´s binding designed by G.A.Pugachevskii. Illustrations by G.A. Pugachevskii. MINT. 500 copies printed. For private distribution. Not for sale.

Collection of brilliant fictionalized essays in the format of short stories by a retired Soviet officer, a former commander of ORB (otdel´nyi razvedyvatel´nyi batal´on) and retired Soviet military intellegence officer with connections to GRU.Viktor Zhuravlev is a son of a KGB cypher clerk in Soviet Ukraine (1970s).

Topics: Notes on everyday life of Soviet army officers in late 1970s - 1980´s by the insider. Soviet war in Afghanistan. Notes on private life of provincial KGB officers in 1970s and 1980s. Collectors and bibliophiles in the Ukraine.Black market and black marketeers in art world.

The author stressed in one of his eassays that all the names, patronimic names and last names of all characters in his stories are authentic.