Roman "Град doomed" - the family antiutopia. An action is opened out on an enigmatic planet, where by mysterious experimenters - so-called Tutors - the earthmen of the XX century are collected. Every earthman voluntarily made decision to participate in unknown Experiment, everybody voluntarily abandoned the time and country - Germany 1940th, the USA 1960th, Sweden 1970th etc. Majority from them lives in some City under by an artificial sun. An experiment gets out of hand of Tutors, and the different models of development of human association are further examined is квазифурьеристское self-government, dictatorship etc.A protagonist - Andrey, Leningrad student-physicist of beginning 1950th is passes a way from fanatic комсомольца-сталиниста to the fully apolitical bourgeois-conformist, adviser of dictator. But instinct of scientist does not give to him finally to grow into an inhabitant: he sets forth for an expedition - to investigate the desert, areas abandoned by the inhabitants of City centuries ago. There, as М. Амусин writes, "reality ощетинивается against a man, trying to break him physically and psychologically. Coming back to life monuments march. A frightful yellow mirage thickens in mid air, and people madness attacks, and they destroy each other in пароксизме of hatred". Heroes of novel "step on the scorched desert, only on one step passing ahead pursuing them death from thirst". And in the "point of the World Beginning Andrey meets an own reflection, twin, shoots in him, kills itself and - carried from raving reality of City to Leningrad of beginning 50th.