S utra 7 dekabrya 1941 g. v San-Frantsisko, glavnom gorode shtata Kaliforniya, na beregu Tihogo okeana, tsarilo bol'shoe vozbuzhdenie. Radio uzhe peredalo trevozhnoe izvestie o predatel'skom napadenii yaponskogo flota na gavan' PirlHarbor na Gavajskih ostrovah, hotya predstaviteli YAponii esche nahodilis' v Vashingtone i prodolzhali peregovory s pravitel'stvom Soedinennyh Shtatov.
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (Russian: Владимир Афанасьевич Обручев) was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.