Vladimir Markovich Sanin (1929-1989) wrote about people who chose a difficult and dangerous path in life - about polar explorers, firefighters, travelers. And he himself belonged to the same restless human breed: at a very young age Sanin managed to take part in the Great Patriotic War, after the war he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, worked in a newspaper, became a writer, and more than once visited the Arctic Circle, the Arctic and Antarctic. The plots of his works are often based on real events, developing in non-trivial circumstances and closed communities (such as the crew of a ship or an avalanche station). The book includes the famous cycle “Call of the Polar Latitudes,” consisting of five stories, and the novel “White Curse,” filmed in 1987. The prose of Vladimir Sanin has inspired filmmakers more than once: it is worth mentioning here the film “Seventy-two degrees below zero” (1976) and the three-part television film “Antarctic Tale” (1979).