And Golconda has fallen. Golconda has lifted pads. It roars, bubbles, frightens of crimson clouds and all pyrotechnics, but
now it already touches nobody, except beginners. Even Black storms are not terrible to us more - our meteorologists destroy
them in a germ hydrogen bombardment. There, where we once stacked selenic bed-sheets, raketodrom the higher class, all
now was stretched utykannyj by "Hiusami". It accepts and sends to hundred ships in a month. A teeth of Venus you will not
find and for three hundred kilometres in district: everything, to devils, are blown up. In fifty kilometres to the south, at ridge
spurs, - a city. To it conduct eight excellent steklomassovyh highway. In city centre there is our "Boy". It have found, cut out
from soil and so, together with the melted off stone, have put on plastmetallovyj the base. On the reservation cut out a short
inscription: "First". It is a monument to Anatoly Ermakovu, Bogdanu Spitsyn, Tahmasibu Mehti, its companions.
Yes, Alesha, Golconda has fallen! Yes that Golconda! It will be fast all Venus at feet of the winner. The ring tjazhelovodnyh
bogs and lakes round Golconda is investigated (till now it is not clear, whence in them undertakes water; at first thought that
these lakes and bogs are somehow connected with Golconda, but two months ago big tjazhelovodnoe the lake has been
opened in other hemisphere of Venus, for some thousand kilometres from us). Irgensen has landed on South Pole. There the
new country - vast woods of red trees, green lakes, strange animals, the present reserve of a strange life hidden under a
dome of a mad stratosphere is opened. Expedition on northern pole prepares. And, if northern polar cap of Venus though is a
little similar on southern, I will forgive much to this planet. And here our expeditions get all further into black sand on that party
of the Ring of Hot Bogs. And I here am compelled to take baths and to devour beefsteaks.
By the way, about beefsteaks.
Recently I saw Michael Antonovicha. He told that chief VSHK responds about you rather well. The same opinion on you and
Michael.