after all, today, october 17 , the people's writer of belarus nikolai cherents turns 85 years old. a wonderful anniversary date with a celebration of long life in youth. nikolai ivanovich was the idol of sports fans, played in the ussr football championship, then served in the police, the war in afghanistan, articles in newspapers, and then books , a lot of books, a rich biography of the author’s action-packed detectives were read and are still read by both the youth and the older generation of the work. chairman of the union of writers of belarus translated for a moment more than 20 languages ​​of the world. yes, we propose today to celebrate the birthday of nikolai ivanovich by the whole country by reading one of his books. if you don’t know what to focus your attention on , there are really a lot of options, then we suggest you read the book, but he didn’t return from the battle, and this book is the national literary award. e, nikolai cherenets was named the best prose work of 2021. once again, our congratulations to the hero of the day. yes, even on a huge-huge congratulations