Smolny created confusion with the status of the newly appointed director Isaac. On the morning of June 2, Fontanka, citing its own sources, spread the news: the Governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, ordered an urgent search for a replacement for Irada Vovnenko. As the publication’s source clarified, the mayor prefers to see a man in this post. According to one version, Poltavchenko received quotes from Mrs. Vovnenko’s romance novels, at which the whole city laughed the day before.

Half a century ago, a boy Lenya from Pervouralsk read Daniil Granin’s novel “I’m Going into the Storm.” Today Leonid Weisberg, Professor of the Mining Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Builder of the Russian Federation, Director of the Research and Production Company “MEKHANOBR”, says: “I hardly expected that Granin would ever want to talk to me about science and much more almost on equal terms.” .