“Timur and his team” - a summary of the story by A.P. Gaidar

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Colonel Alexandrov, who is at the front, sends a telegram to his daughters, eighteen-year-old Olga and thirteen-year-old Zhenya, and invites them to spend the rest of the summer at the dacha.

The girls arrive separately. In a holiday village, Olga meets a young engineer Georgy Garayev. Olga spends the whole day waiting for Zhenya, who, before sending a telegram to her father, wandered into an abandoned dacha, from which the dog did not let her out, and for so long that the girl spent the whole night at this dacha. Waking up in the morning, Zhenya goes home, realizing that a serious conversation is about to take place, but then a girl unfamiliar to her catches up with her with a receipt for payment for the telegram and a note from a certain Timur.

In the depths of the garden, Zhenya finds a shed in which there is a steering wheel with rope wires attached to it. The girl begins to play with him, not realizing that in this way she is giving call signs. A group of boys come running to the signals. Having discovered Zhenya, they are going to teach her a lesson, but they are stopped by the same Timur. Left with the boys, the girl learns that they provide all kinds of help to people, paying special attention to the families of Red Army soldiers, and also that they are opposed by a gang of Kvakintsy.

Having learned that her younger sister spends a lot of time with some Timur, Olga forbids Zhenya to be friends with Timur, believing that he is a hooligan. Later, Olga finds out that Georgy Garayev is Timur’s uncle. To teach her sister a lesson, she goes home to Moscow. Already in her Moscow apartment, she receives a telegram from her father, which says that he will be in Moscow for 3 hours and wants to see his daughters.

Zhenya notices telegrams from Olga and her father when the trains no longer run, but Timur comes to her aid. He takes his uncle's motorcycle without permission, since his uncle is also in Moscow and takes Zhenya to meet his father. At the last moment they appear at the Alexandrovs’ house and the father manages to see his girls.

Returning to the dacha from Moscow, Georgy Garayev finds neither Timur nor the motorcycle. As punishment, he plans to send him home to his mother. At this time Timur appears with Olga and Zhenya. Olga tells Georgiy about the events that happened.

After some time, Georgy receives a summons. Olga, Zhenya, and Timur’s team come to see George off. Olga urges Timur not to be sad and tells him that the people he helped will answer him in kind.

Main characters

Gaidar in his work brought out a number of interesting characters, many of whom later became symbols of certain human properties and qualities. The main characters of “Timur and his team”:

1. Timur. A tall boy with dark hair, aged 13. He created his own team and, together with it, provided assistance to those people whose relatives went to serve in the Red Army.
2. Olga Alexandrova. An 18-year-old girl who was good at playing the accordion. A college student who dreams of becoming an engineer.
3. Zhenya Alexandrova. A 13-year-old girl, Olga's younger sister, whom she constantly took care of. She became Timur's friend and helped him in all his endeavors.
4. Georgy Garayev. Timur's uncle, who worked as a mechanical engineer at a local automobile plant. In his free time, he participated in the activities of the city opera, played and sang there.
5. Mishka Kvakin is the leader of a gang of teenage hooligans.
6. The little daughter and widow of the deceased Lieutenant Pavlov.
7. Colonel Alexandrov. Father of Zhenya and Olya.

History of creation

The author wrote his famous work in the genre of a story, the characters are partly fairy tales, partly real. Gaidar watched the guys living in his yard and took the best qualities from them:

• honesty;
• courage;
• mutual assistance;
• loyalty;
• love for the fatherland.

As for the main character of “Timur and the Team,” this image is collective. Although many are inclined to believe that the prototype of the leader of the detachment was the writer himself. Arkady Gaidar, as a boy, was the commander of the Red Army.

The story has been published more than 200 times and translated into 75 languages. It was included in the encyclopedia of 100 books that are recommended for schoolchildren to read. The first publication took place in the fall of 1940 in the newspaper publication Pionerskaya Pravda.

A feature film was made based on the work; the film premiered in 1940. A complete list of actors can be found on Wikipedia. There are also online recordings of the story; theater actors acted as narrators.

Beginning of the work

The story takes place in the summer of 1939. For three months, Colonel Alexandrov, who commanded the armored division, was absent from home. Apparently, he was sent to the front. The father sent a telegram to his daughters, Zhenya and Olya, in which he ordered that the girls spend the rest of the holidays at their dacha near Moscow.

Olga, the eldest daughter, was the first to go there. In the evening she took her accordion, which her father had given her, and began to play it. Suddenly she unexpectedly saw an unknown young man who was eavesdropping on the girl’s game. He introduced himself to the surprised Olga as Georgiy Garayev and said that he, too, was related to the artists. The guy volunteered to take her to the station, since Zhenya was supposed to arrive at the dacha in the evening. However, for some reason she never arrived.

Zhenya's Adventures

The girl planned to send a letter to her father from Moscow, but she did not have enough time for this, so upon arrival in the village, the first thing she did was look for the local post office building. She didn’t succeed, and Zhenya got lost. Trying to find out the right way, the girl went into the first house she came across, which turned out to be Garayev’s dacha. Suddenly, a huge red dog appeared from somewhere and began barking loudly at Zhenya. Because of her, she could not leave the house. She had no choice but to stay at someone else’s dacha until the evening. After some time, she fell asleep from fatigue and worries.

When Zhenya woke up, she saw a note on the table. In this message, the unknown person addressed her and asked her to slam the door harder when she left the house. The author of the note signed himself as Timur.

In the next room Zhenya found a fake revolver. Taking it in her hands, she accidentally pulled the trigger, and a loud shot was heard. There was a powerful crash in the room and a mirror broke. Frightened, the girl quickly ran out of the house, forgetting the key to her Moscow apartment and the telegram that were lying on the table.

After some time, she managed to find a dacha. An angry older sister was waiting for her there. Zhenya was already preparing to make excuses to Olga, but an unknown girl suddenly approached them. She gave them the key left in Garayev’s house and a receipt that the telegram forgotten on the table had already been sent by mail.

Meet Timur

During one of her walks through the local garden, Zhenya discovered a barn with thin rope wires stretching from the attic in different directions. She wanted to launch a small paper parachutist from the roof of the building, but due to the wind it flew into the attic window. The girl became interested, and she climbed inside the building. There she discovered a large wheel, similar in appearance to a steering wheel. A homemade telephone was suspended above it.

Imagining herself as the captain of a ship, Zhenya turned the wheel. Suddenly all the wires began to hum loudly and tremble. This was the call sign, to which several boys came running. The last of them to arrive at the scene was a tall, black-haired guy who introduced himself as Timur.

He told Zhenya that a horde of hooligans led by a certain Mishka Kvakin was rampaging through this holiday village. He and his gang raid local orchards and vegetable gardens. Timur acts differently with his friends and tries to help people, especially those whose loved ones went to serve in the Red Army. On the fences of the houses of their wards, they paint a special symbol - a huge five-pointed star. She signals that from this day on the home is under the protection and guard of Timur’s team. The guys provided all possible assistance to those in need:

• stacked logs;
• they were looking for a runaway goat;
• calmed crying children.

The peculiarity of the team was that they performed all their good deeds secretly, so that no outsider would see it. Zhenya was also accepted into their organization. Timur advised her to start playing with the little daughter of a lieutenant named Pavlov, who had recently died while performing his official duty at the border. His widow was very grateful that someone was entertaining her baby and she was no longer sad.

Fight with Kvakin

Timur is trying to peacefully resolve the problem with Kvakin, realizing that with physical force he will only cause a massacre, from which no one will be better off. But one-on-one conversations don't work. In addition, Olga notices the guys together and decides that Garayev is part of Kvakin’s gang. She doesn't want Zhenya to date him anymore.

Timur and his friends decide to put an end to the excesses of Kvakin and his hooligans. He gives them an ultimatum, but they reject him and take two of his friends, Kolya Kolokolchikov and Geika, prisoner. Garayev understands that he can no longer hesitate on this issue. He wants to teach the bullies a lesson.

A fight breaks out, during which Timur’s men lock the villains in a small booth on the edge of the market square so that they cannot get out on their own. Timur’s men hang a piece of cardboard on the building, where they indicate in large handwriting that there are scoundrels sitting here who, being cowards, walk through the gardens of civilians at night and steal them.

Garayev takes Olga for a ride on a motorcycle and tells her that in the local opera he plays the role of an old disabled man who used to be a partisan. That is why many neighbors often saw him in old man's makeup . For his role, he also had a fake revolver, from which Zhenya fired an accidental shot.

Zhenya picked a bouquet of flowers for Pavlov’s daughter. Timur brought it home to the girl at night, and also made a swing in their garden.

The anniversary of the victory of the Red Army in the battle of Khasan is coming. In her honor, a walk and concert are held in the park. Georgy is performing there, and he asks Olga to accompany him. Together they perform several compositions. After that, they take a walk and accidentally meet Timur and Zhenya. Garayev admits to Olga that the boy is his nephew.

She was upset because she thought that Timur was also in Kvakin’s gang and could have a negative impact on Zhenya. In response to this, Georgy strictly forbade his nephew to approach the Alexandrovs’ dacha, otherwise the boy would be sent from the dacha village to his mother.

Main characters

There are several main characters in the work. Description of the most striking figures in the story:

1. Timur is a pioneer with leadership inclinations, gathering like-minded people around him. He is brave, decisive and honest, tries to help the elderly with housework, and keeps order. He fights against a local gang that disturbs the peace of local residents and steals their harvest.
2. Zhenya is a thirteen-year-old girl, the daughter of a commander, she, accompanied by her older sister, came to relax at the dacha. Having learned about the existence of the detachment and realizing what an important mission the guys are performing, he decides to join the team.
3. Georgy Garayev is a responsible man with a good education, the uncle of the main character of the work. Gera is a creative person, sings and plays in the local theater. After meeting the sisters who came from the city, he falls in love with the eldest Olga. But he never confesses his feelings to the girl, as he receives a summons and is sent to fight in the tank forces.
4. Olga is the older sister, in the absence of her father she took care of Evgenia, she is strict with her. According to the girl’s primary reasoning, Timur is a hooligan, so she does not allow her younger sister to be friends with him. Later he admits his mistake. Olga is an honest, fair and kind heroine.
5. Mikhail Kvakin is a negative character, the leader of a gang that ruins the lives of local residents. But later he still comes to his senses and realizes that he is doing bad things. After analyzing his life, the young man leaves the criminal path.
6. Colonel Alexandrov is the father of Olga and Zhenya, who, due to his duty, is forced to leave the girls for an indefinite period of time. He treats his daughters with care and treats the people around him fairly, including Timur. He approves of the actions of the pioneer and his detachment, and also respects the act when the young man, abandoning everything he was doing, took Zhenya on a motorcycle to Moscow.

There are also minor characters in the work - a detachment of Timurovites and Kvakin’s gang. They are radically different from each other: some try to make the world a better place, while others, on the contrary, cause destruction.

Resolution of the story

Olya spent almost the entire day in Moscow visiting her friend. Only in the evening she returned home and received a telegram from her father. He reports that he will soon be in the capital, passing through for a few hours.

Zhenya remained in the village, and Pavlova’s widow asked her to look after her daughter, because she herself urgently needed to go somewhere. While the girl was doing this, she received 2 telegrams , but she was able to read them only at night. Her father wrote to her that he would arrive in Moscow at midnight and leave 3 hours later. The last train to the capital had already left, and Alexandrova realized that she would not make it in time. She had to turn to Timur for help.

Garayev asked one of his friends to babysit the little girl, while he took a motorcycle from his uncle, who was at work in Moscow, and took Zhenya home to the capital. They had to rush for a long time along country roads, but still they managed to arrive 30 minutes before Colonel Alexandrov was forced to leave.

In the morning, Garayev returned home from work and did not find Timur at home, but he saw that the motorcycle was missing. He decided to send the boy home, but at that moment the postman came to him and gave him a summons. Timur returned from the capital together with Zhenya and Olga. The uncle wanted to punish the boy, but Olga stood up for him, explaining the situation. After that, Georgy entered the house and came out to her already in the captain’s uniform of a tanker.

Zhenya spun the wheel in the attic, and about 50 guys came running to see Garayev off. When the train with Georgy left, Timur was worried, but tried not to show it. He said that his mother should pick him up the next day. Olga assured him that he would not be lost in life, because he helps people, and they reciprocate his feelings.

A summary of the story “Timur and his team” in detail.

In July, the Alexandrov sisters received news from their father, a colonel in command of an armored division. Three months ago he went to war. In a telegram, the colonel suggested that his daughters live until the fall at a dacha in the Moscow region.

Author: Alexander Petrovich Gaidar

The girls happily accepted the offer and prepared to leave. The elder sister Olga told Zhenya to put things in order, take the books to the library and send a telegram to her father, and she went to the dacha with her things.

The truck was taking Olga to the holiday village. Soon the driver slowed down near a small house. When all the things were unloaded, an old woman, a milkmaid neighbor, ran up to Olga and offered to help tidy up the dacha. Olga went out into the yard and heard a crash - a ladder that stood near a two-story barn fell to the ground. The girl looked around in surprise. The neighbor explained: it was the neighbors’ kids who were hooligans; they robbed two apple trees on the neighbors’ plots.

In the evening Olga took out the accordion and went out onto the porch. She selected a melody for the song she heard from the Red Army soldiers. Suddenly, from behind a bush that grew near the fence, a man in a white suit appeared. He really liked the way Olga played. He stood quietly and listened so as not to disturb.

The young man introduced himself - Georgy Garayev, he is an engineer, loves creativity and himself sings in an amateur opera at a car plant. Olga was a little angry at first and asked the uninvited guest to use the gate and go outside the fence, but then unexpectedly suggested that he accompany her to the station. I needed to meet Zhenya, but she didn’t know these places.

On the way, Olga complained about her unlucky sister. My wife is thirteen, she is only five years younger than Olga, so she doesn’t listen well. The young people stood on the platform for a long time, but did not wait for Zhenya. She will probably arrive in the morning.

Zhenya did not have time to send a telegram to her father from Moscow. She arrived in the village the same evening when Olga was waiting for her, but got lost trying to find the village post office. It was late, and Zhenya was still wandering through the deserted and deserted streets. Finally, she approached someone else's dacha, the door was open, she entered the house to ask where the post office was.

However, no one answered her; there was only a large dog in the house. When Zhenya headed towards the exit, the dog growled and lay down by the door. The girl could only wait for the owners to come. She climbed onto the sofa and left the key and telegram on the table. Time passed, it was already dark outside. The girl cried quietly and fell asleep.

The next morning the dog was no longer there. On the table Zhenya saw a note asking her to slam the door harder before leaving. The author of the note was Timur. Zhenya didn’t know who this man was, but she felt that he was very kind and caring.

The girl went into the next room and discovered an old revolver and a saber. She took a saber in one hand, a revolver in the other and stood in front of the mirror, enjoying her warlike appearance.

Zhenya took aim at the mirror, fired, and fragments of the mirror fell onto the ashtray. Zhenya ran out of the house. Olga will definitely swear if you tell her about the shot and everything else.

To gain courage, Zhenya swam in the river, and then went to look for her dacha.

Olga met her sister with a stern look. As soon as Zhenya confessed everything, a commotion began in the yard: a shaggy goat ran through the gate, followed by a tanned girl. Zhenya, in order to get away from the unpleasant conversation, rushed to catch a goat. The tanned girl handed Zhenya the telegraph receipt and the key to the apartment. The younger sister, without fear or excitement, approached the upset Olga and kissed her. Everything she said about the key and the telegram became an absurd joke.

F.G. Kolokolchikov was repairing a clock in the garden. His grandson Kolya stood nearby with a bored look and waited for his grandfather to need the screwdriver he was holding in his hand.

F.G. Kolokolchikov hinted to his grandson that he should work more, since only through work can he ennoble his soul.

Suddenly something clanged and rattled near the chicken coop. The doctor, five-year-old sister Kolya and the old thrush who brought milk turned around at the noise. At this time, Kolya Kolokolchikov jumped over the beds and disappeared behind the fence. Comrade Simakov had been waiting for him for a long time.

Geika, Vasily Ladygin and other guys joined the boys in the park. Everyone heard the ringing in their barns and decided that it was a common call sign. Only it was the wrong signal, they needed to quickly check what had happened, and the boys ran towards their goal.

In the house where Zhenya left the key and telegram, the alarm bell also rang. A thirteen-year-old boy Timur lived here with his uncle, Georgy Garayev. The uncle was angry because Timur left an unfamiliar girl to spend the night in the house, who broke the mirror and smashed the ashtray. But Timur calmly explained that this girl was familiar to him and ran out onto the veranda, where the bronze bell was jumping.

An hour before the boys heard the call sign, Olga was intently reading a physics textbook. Zhenya, pressing the keys of the accordion, told how one man in a white suit came to her and asked why Olga did not want to study at the conservatory - she plays so well. The older sister strictly asked not to interfere with her practice and to put the accordion in its place.

Zhenya was offended and went out into the garden. She climbed into the attic of the barn, which stood in the green thicket, and realized that here was the headquarters of some secret organization. Zhenya's attention was drawn to a large wheel that looked like a steering wheel.

Zhenya imagined herself as the captain of a large ship and turned the wheel. At the same moment, the rope wires that were tied to the wheel hummed and the telephone rang. Zhenya picked up the phone and heard: “Run away!”

At this time, a crowd of boys climbed into the attic. The girl got scared and screamed. Timur got up after the guys. He reassured Zhenya and promised that no one would hurt her here. Timur invited Zhenya to stay in the attic to see what he and his comrades were doing.

The guys settled around Timur, like soldiers around their commander. An observer with binoculars watched what was happening outside. Zhenya listened to what the guys were talking about.

Kolya Kolokolchikov said that in the garden of the Red Army soldier Kryukov’s house, hooligans shook an apple tree. This was probably done by Mishka Kvakin and his assistant Figure. Kvakin needs special attention; ordinary conversations have no effect on him.

Sima Simakov reported that a goat had disappeared from the house of Red Army soldier Pavel Guryev. The boy himself saw how the grandmother, the owner, beat her granddaughter Nyurka for not keeping an eye on the goat.

The observer saw Mishka Kvakin walking along the road and offered to teach him a lesson. Timur objected, he decided to talk to him himself.

At this time, Olga went out to buy milk from a neighbor. Timur and Mishka stood on the road. Timur calmly warned Kvakin that he and his whole gang would have a bad time if they misbehaved in the houses on which the star was painted. These houses, belonging to Red Army soldiers, are under the protection and protection of Timur's men.

From the outside it seemed that Timur and Mishka were having a peaceful, friendly conversation. Olga asked the old milkmaid who was talking to the bully Mishka? She replied that this was probably some kind of hooligan too.

Timur returned to the guys and conveyed the essence of his conversation with Kvakin. The friends decided to present the gang with an ultimatum tomorrow and fled to their homes. Zhenya became part of Timur’s team, and a task was also found for her: to please the widow of Lieutenant Pavlov and her daughter with something.

Finding Zhenya in the company of Timur, Olga became angry and categorically forbade her sister to communicate with this robber. Zhenya tried to explain to her sister that Timur was not a robber. But Olga listened to her. Arriving home, Zhenya fell asleep and did not hear the postman come at night. Dad sent a telegram, he will soon be passing through Moscow.

The next day, the old milkmaid drove her cow into the herd early in the morning. As soon as she turned onto another street, five boys with empty buckets ran to the well. They collected water and poured it into an oak tub. The water in the tub filled to the brim - Timur’s men successfully completed one task. There was still a whole day ahead!

Timur's men caught the missing goat and stacked the woodpile in the house of Red Army soldier Pavel Guryev, which made Nyurka and her grandmother very happy.

Opposite the dacha where the sisters lived was the dacha of the Red Army soldier Pavlov. He was killed at the front, so the star on the gate of his house was surrounded by a black border. At the dacha lived the young widow of Lieutenant Pavlov and a little blond girl of four years old - her daughter.

The girl watched a plywood hare climb down the fence. She, surprised, came closer, and the hare jumped straight into her arms. Following the hare, Zhenya jumped over the fence and offered to play together.

Olga saw Zhenya jump into someone else’s garden and, worried, went to the neighbors herself. Pavlova's widow asked Olga not to be angry: Zhenya was just playing with her daughter. They are in grief, the woman is constantly crying, and the girl still does not know about the death of her father.

The time has come to deal with the bandit gang. Timur's men drew up an ultimatum and sent two messengers: Kolka and Geika. The messengers stopped near the walls of the chapel, behind which the hooligans were playing cards. Kolya Kolokolchikov blew a copper horn, and a Figure appeared from behind the wall - Mishka Kvakin’s first assistant. Geika handed over the package intended for Mishka and said that in twenty-four hours he and Kolya would return for an answer.

Timur's men, in a fairly polite manner, demanded to provide a list of all members of Mikhail Kvakin's gang.

Dr. F.G. Kolokolchikov was convinced that Timur was a thief and a hooligan. One day, early in the morning, Timur almost snatched the flannel blanket from the sleeping doctor through the window. In fact, Timur tried to wake up Kolya Kolokolchikov in this way, but he was mistaken, got scared and ran away, and the doctor mistook Timur for a swindler.

F.G. Kolokolchikov found Timur’s dacha to complain to his parents about his hooligan son, but found only a decrepit old man in the garden. This old man called himself Timur's uncle. The doctor began his story about the theft of a flannelette blanket, when he suddenly saw a revolver in his interlocutor’s hand. The indignant old man, without letting go of the revolver, replied that this was most likely a misunderstanding. F.G. Kolokolchikov wisely backed away towards the exit and jumped out the gate.

At this time, Olga was passing by Garayev’s dacha; she was going to swim in the river. The old man shouted at her to stop, but the elderly gentleman, F.G. Kolokolchikov, fearing for Olga, took her away from the strange old man.

Georgy Garayev took off his wig and beard and rushed to the river on a motorcycle after Olga.

Twenty-four hours had passed since the ultimatum was presented - it was time to go for an answer. The messengers again stood in front of the chapel fence. Kolya blew a copper horn, and Geika called Mikhail Kvakin. The boys from the enemy camp invited the messengers to pass through the open gate. Geika and Kolya were not afraid, they entered and demanded an answer.

Instead of answering, Kvakin handed over a sheet of paper on which a fig was drawn. The hooligans immediately grabbed the messengers and brazenly promised to plunder the garden of the twenty-fourth house at night. Geika calmly replied that Kvakin’s gang would not succeed and encouraged the timid Kolka. The captive messengers were locked in a chapel with solid iron shutters, and no one noticed Sima Simakov’s face in the thick linden foliage.

At this time, the Alexandrov sisters were relaxing on the river: the older sister was reading a book, and the younger sister was swimming. Here Zhenya met Tanya, a girl from Timur’s team. Tanya said that Timur is very worried because Zhenya is getting it from her sister because of him.

Having rested near the river, Olga headed towards the house. Georgy met her on the road and offered her a ride. The young man apologized because an old man with a revolver scared her in the morning. He was the one in makeup getting ready for the rehearsal. George brought her a bouquet of flowers as a gift. Olga suddenly threw the flowers on the road, and then guiltily replied that she would go with him just like that, without flowers.

Near the chapel in which Kolka and Geika were locked, only the Figure remained. The rest of the boys, having agreed to meet near the twenty-fourth house, went home. The figure was angry that the prisoners were not shouting or responding to questions. He opened the bolt, stood in the wall and began to listen. Suddenly the door slammed behind him and he heard laughter in the chapel. When the door opened again, Figure saw Timur, Simakov and Ladygin in front of him. The guys ordered the hooligan to release the prisoners, and then locked the Figure himself in the chapel.

In the evening, Timur's men gathered at their headquarters to prepare for an important task. The steering wheel spun, transmitting the necessary signals along the rope wires. More and more guys came from all sides; in total, about thirty people gathered. When everyone was ready, Timur commanded: “It’s time!”

Kvakin and his accomplices made their way into the garden of house number twenty-four through a pre-prepared hole in the fence. Mishka noticed in confusion that his first assistant, Figure, was not among the guys, but his friends reassured him: “Figure has probably been in the garden for a long time.” A boy sentry remained near the fence.

Timur's men hid in a ditch on the other side of the street. Seizing the moment, Geika ran up to the sentry, threw him away from the fence and ordered him to be silent. The sentry immediately whistled shrilly. A dozen lights flashed behind the robbers. Mishka realized that it was Timur and ordered to beat the enemy.

But there was no point in resisting. The robbers found themselves in an ambush: Timur's men surrounded them from the rear and flank. The gang rushed towards the fence in panic. All the hooligans, except Mishka Kvakin, were locked in an empty booth on the market square. They released the bear and gave him the key to the chapel where the Figure sits. The bear is no longer afraid of anyone.

Passers-by walked from the night train through the market square and looked around in surprise: who is making noise here? It was the boys screaming, locked in an empty booth. Timurovites left a poster for passers-by with the inscription that hooligans who were robbing other people’s gardens were locked in the booth, and behind the poster they hung a key so that people themselves would free the criminals.

The day of the victory of the Red Army soldiers near Khasan arrived, and the Komsomol members of the dacha village organized a big celebration. Music was blaring in the park, and more and more vacationers were driving up in cars. On the stage, Georgy sang a military song, and Olga accompanied him on the accordion. Zhenya looked at her sister with admiration and regretted that dad couldn’t hear how well she played!

Olga was again upset about Zhenya: the girl was nowhere to be found! Georgy had just seen her at a concert, but then a boy approached her, and they ran away somewhere together. Georgy and Olga, after the concert, were walking along the alley and ran into another couple at an intersection. Timur and Zhenya walked towards them.

Olga was seriously angry when she found out that Timur was George’s nephew. The engineer himself admitted everything to her. The older sister still believes that Timur is a scoundrel who steals apples from neighbors at night. Olga firmly decided to leave for Moscow immediately.

Georgy was also not happy with Timur’s behavior and strictly asked him not to approach Olga’s dacha.

In the evening Olga left for Moscow. She saw a telegram from dad on the door of the apartment and immediately read it.

The younger sister was left alone at the dacha. The widow of Lieutenant Pavlov came to her, she wanted to ask her to look after her daughter, and was very upset when she found out that Olga was in Moscow. Zhenya volunteered to look after the girl herself. As soon as the baby was put to bed and her mother left, Zhenya and Tanya ran outside to play.

The girls ran away to play and did not see the postman come to the house. The neighbor received two telegrams from the postman, promised to wait for Zhenya and give everything to her. Quite a long time passed, but Zhenya was still not there, then the neighbor opened the window and lowered both telegrams onto the windowsill.

Zhenya returned very late. The little girl was sleeping peacefully. Zhenya thought about her sister: for the first time they really quarreled, although, it would seem, none of them was to blame. The girl turned on the light and saw two telegrams. The first was from dad, and the second from Olga. It was necessary to immediately go to Moscow to see dad. He will be passing through Moscow this night from twelve to three o'clock.

The time was late: twenty-three hours forty-five minutes, and the last train to Moscow left at twenty-three fifty-five. Zhenya was in despair, she wouldn’t make it to the station in time, and she had no one to leave her little girl with!

Zhenya could not remain alone with her misfortune; she needed support. She went up to the attic of the barn and turned the signal wheel.

The dog Rita was the first to hear the ringing of the bell and woke up the owner. Timur stood up and picked up the phone.

He listened carefully to Zhenya and reassured her. The boy quickly got dressed and within a few minutes was standing on the threshold of F.G.’s house. Kolokolchikova. The lights were still on in the house, and Timur knocked on the door. The doctor was surprised by the late guest, but he let him in and listened carefully to everything Timur said. The boy told the doctor about himself, about his team and asked to call Kolya Kolokolchikov.

Kolya ran to Zhenya, and together they waited for Timur at the gate.

Timur planned to take Zhenya to Moscow on the motorcycle of his uncle, Georgy Garayev. But he could not ask permission: his uncle spent the night in Moscow. Then Timur decided on a desperate act: he knocked down the lock and took the motorcycle out of the barn.

Timur drove up to the gate where his comrades were waiting for him. He instructed Kolya to look after the sleeping girl, and together with Zhenya rushed to Moscow.

Colonel Alexandrov arrived at his home. Olga couldn’t find a place for herself, she didn’t know what happened to Zhenya, her sister missed her father so much and didn’t come.

Suddenly the outer door clanged, Zhenya silently walked up to her father and buried her face in his chest. Zhenya introduced Timur to dad, and his father shook his hand.

The short but warm meeting warmed the heart of Colonel Alexandrov for a long time.

The next morning Georgy Garayev returned home. He found neither Timur nor the motorcycle and immediately made the decision to send his disobedient nephew home to Moscow. At this time, Georgy saw a soldier stop near his house. The Red Army soldier brought a package - George was called to the front.

Soon the engineer met the Alexandrov and Timur sisters on the threshold of his dacha. The Alexandrov sisters asked Georgiy not to scold Timur for taking the motorcycle.

The next day, the captain of the tank forces boldly entered the garden of the Alexandrov sisters. It was Georgy Garayev, he is going to the front and came to say goodbye. Zhenya summoned all Timurovites. George was seen off with music, everyone wished him a happy journey.