Chapter 6, Part 2: Stremya and the People. 'A double coffee for Kinchev and a handful of change for a beggar'.

The main task remained: to find our dear Oleg Yuryevich Rautkin, who, as usual, spent the summer drifting across the vast expanses of our country, and tracking him down was a real problem. had gone with his Kharkov Institute of Physical Education student construction brigade to Siberia. The brigade returned, but without Rautkin. He had gotten lost somewhere. Later we learned that during his travels through Siberia, Oleg had somehow crossed paths with the poet Andrei Voznesensky and ended up hanging out with him in a hotel room in either Krasnoyarsk or Novosibirsk. Voznesensky was doing poetry readings in cities across Siberia, which was where Rautkin ended up; and since Oleg is a renowned connoisseur and expert in poetry, they quickly found a common language. Anyway, we set up information traps for Rautkin, and finally, a call came to the teachers' lounge—from Ukraine. Rautkin was ready to leave 'right now.' However, tickets were hard to come by. Oleg only managed to fly out a week later—during which time we had the opportunity to do some final sweeping.