Lyudmila Menchinskaya

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

Ensign-border guard Kalitkin, having retired due to shell shock, works as a guide for a scientific expedition in the border zone. One day, noticing violators in the border zone, Kalitkin without hesitation enters into an unequal battle with the enemy...