I, Semyon Vasilyevich Yurkovsky, lieutenant colonel of the Airborne Subversive Detachment "Sarmat" officially and lieutenant colonel of the special unit of military stalkers "Vybros" actually dismissed from the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the end of the contract officially, and the impossibility to continue service actually, decided to tell you my story. The story about what is really hidden behind the romance and rapturous shouts of Stalker life in the Zone, about what is so carefully hidden behind the veil of secrets and vultures "secret" from ordinary people under the phrase "Environmental disaster zone" or simply "Chernobyl Zone", about some moments, witness and participant of which I had the chance to become ...