The compilers of the book were well-known Amur writers, members of the Union of Writers of Russia Vladislav Letsik, Pavel Savinkin and Stanislav Sakhonchik. It collected works by 30 authors under a single cover. The volume of the book is 168 pages. The collection was published by a private Annunciation publishing house headed by Igor Sasim.
“Friends! We prepared this little book for you: those who are on the battlefield, who are at the front. This is our contribution to our victory over the enemy. This is only the case when a feather is equated with a bayonet .. … Here, under one cover, poems are collected, plagued with pain for their relatives, for their loved ones, for their country… And they belong to the pen of poets of the older generation and of the very young: it happened that there are no families in our country that have gone through wars. And for this reason, each line, each word smells of gunpowder,” the authors of the book wrote.
The collection was published at the expense of municipal grant money in the field of culture and art of the Blagoveshchensk administration within the framework of the “Words with the smell of gunpowder” project.
As part of this project, meetings and presentations of the book’s authors and veterans of military conflicts with readers are also held. Educational institutions and libraries become venues for this type of event.
