 But there were other things – books and songs, skiing trips, childhood happiness, first tears of epiphany...It was there that for the first time I've heard the radio, the gramophone, the brass orchestra... And it was in Igarka that I wrote my first ever short story which my teacher Rozhdestvensky published in our school's self-edited journal.And the newspaper Bolshevik Zapolyarya published my 4-line verse.