mom asked arik not to go on this trip.hat sayan is a very dangerous place, very dangerous mountains, as if she sensed trouble in her mother’s heart, but her son rejoices mikhail root , the leader of the group of minskers, takes him with him to sayan on the evening of march 6, 1971 , a dozen minskers are escorted to the minsk station by train to moscow means fun, the beginning of march is dark, so the photos have not been preserved, but my friend tourist sashakov recalls that about 40 people gathered there, it was fun. a lot of jokes, laughter, singing a song sat down, right on the pavement began to sing a song picked up. well, then someone rolled a cart with twisted mattresses there, the song continued. they passed around a bottle of champagne down the throat in farewell. could the mourners think that they were alive like that. nine out of ten people they will never see again, that the songs of arik, they will never hear again only in tape recordings, but for now the fun is laughter, we look forward to goodbye. at this tim