This is one of the first film scripts by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov. This is a mute film, so-called ‘socialistic comedy’. This is a story about the brigade of the builders-concreters, who are building a huge dam for the new hydroelectric power station and about their brigadier Bitiugov. This is a story, when the campaign of glorification and praising of the modest and simple workers reaches the grandiose and just unbelievable level, from which...

Biblically and practically instructs church members in ways they can labor for the health of their church. What Is a Healthy Church Member? takes its cue from Mark Dever's book What Is a Healthy Church?, which offered one definition of what a healthy church looks like biblically and historically. In this new work, pastor Thabiti Anyabwile attempts to answer the natural next question: "What does a healthy church member look like in the light of Scripture?" God...

В книге " ПЕРЕЗАГРУЗКА: ускорение и прорыв с помощью поста" пастор Владимир Савчук объясняет принципы библейского поста, а также ведёт читателя на протяжении 21 дня поста. В разделах книги вы найдете ежедневные библейские учения, молитвы и наставления....

Everyone knows the effect of dealing with texts of the past as with venerable old people: here we love them, here we respect them, and there and there we tactfully turn a blind eye, because everyone understands everything. In Greenland-Green's fictional country-from any point of view one should not turn a blind eye to anything. It does not become obsolete, but only becomes closer and more modern. Greenland is a territory of freedom that has stood...

The events take place in some of the «middle European countries», in which the citizens are actively preparing to celebrate a famous St. Jorgen's Day. At the same time two criminals a narrow-minded thief Shults and the star of the international level Kortis escape from the prison. While hiding from the police, they manage to make the mould of the main temple of St. Jorgen. Kortis penetrates to the temple at night, hoping to find there anything precious....

In the book by Ukrainian writer Valery Primost - three stories about the life of soldiers in the Transbaikal Military District of the times of the end of the USSR. It doesn't matter if you are strong or weak, it doesn't matter if you are an urban intellectual or a simple rural guy. The Russian Army Juggernaut will crush you and expel you - mangled and devastated. And even if you survive, something inside you will be dead forever. This book is the...

The book is a collection of lyrical, humorous short stories written in Russian about the latest wave of Russian immigration to America, and characters spanning several generations of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras in Russia and in Ukraine.

In a distant Montenegrin village, being a boy, Miki receives from his grandfather special secret knowledge and a notebook with prescriptions for treating many serious diseases including cancer. The grandfather revealed to his receiver a mystery, how to obtain supernatural abilities that only the chosen one has. When Miki grew up, many high-ranking individuals and criminal authorities became aware of this notebook and they wanted to use secret knowledge...

The book "The lawyer's breakfast” is a collection of articles written by lawyers Semen and Anna Khanin. Russian language. Illustrations - Katya Dudnik.

Ekaterina Limonova, who pursued higher education and achieved professional success without even suspecting that her hearing ability was well below average, embarks on "Why," a journey through her life experiences, from her difficult childhood in the Soviet Union in the 1980s to her current life in Great Britain, where she was finally diagnosed with hearing loss, as well as one of her children. With her training and experience as a specialized speech...