Fedor Kujbida

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation he quits his job and flies back to Moscow. There all his vast efforts to win her back seem in vain...

Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.

According to the story of V. Shukshin, "Stalled."