Adventures ofВ Canned Food Seller and his friends. Adventures ofВ Afrikancev

Oleg Torbin

The book is based on real historical events. Actual prototypes stand behind each of the mentioned characters. A humorous novel. Free from buttons, no stress for koumpounophobic people.

Adventures ofВ Canned Food Seller and his friends

Adventures ofВ Afrikancev

Oleg Torbin

Illustrator Natalia Salygo

Illustrator ELENA

© Oleg Torbin, 2022

© Natalia Salygo, illustrations, 2022

© ELENA, illustrations, 2022

ISBNВ 978-5-4490-5538-5

Created with Ridero smart publishing system

Artem Afrikantcev

It was the end ofВ summer. Company N has moved toВ aВ new office: seven departments now were located inВ aВ new disposition ofВ the open space, so each staff had toВ deal with new neighbors.

Surprisingly it occurred that heat-loving Artem Afrikancev from the Grocery Department now was sitting right next to the frost-resistant Matrena Ledokolova from the Accounting section. Therefore, summer and winter climate settings around the two teams changed very quickly when Artem or Matrena left their places for a minute. The other colleagues tried not to interfere into the “climate battle” preferring to pull over a sweater during winter and wind up the sleeves when suddenly summer arrived.

The most suffering side in the climate battle was the air conditioner, which went out of order from time to time squeezing out liquid drops resembling tears…

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InВ the end ofВ the year, Artem had toВ go on aВ business trip toВ Yamal peninsular, toВ meet with aВ canned factory. He booked via internet an aisle seat, switched off the air blower, and dipped into reading the board magazine, seeking for aВ story about snow countries. Turbulence shook Artem into sleep. Another shake woke him up when the wheels ofВ the airplane touched the ground ofВ Salehard city.

Artem was quite tired, upon arriving to the hotel took shower, and went to bed immediately. Strange dreams about icebergs and white bears looking like snow monsters made him wake up in cold sweat and hard breath. He did not feel like continuing watching thrilling dreams and went to the casino on the ground floor of the hotel. Artem recalled that during his study at university he read “The Gambler” by Fedor Dostoevsky, where the writer described his tactics of playing the roulette. Now the young businessman had a chance to see how Dostoevsky’s theory would work in practice. He played 6—7 games by minimal risk quarter stakes and was lucky enough to win slightly over than he invested into the chips. Gambling excitement took off his emotional tiredness and he could sleep until 7 a.m. without nightmares.

Morning meeting with the canned food factory was quite successful; Artem settled existing issues and clarified mid-term plans on the supply side. As he still had several hours until his return flight he decided to follow recommendation from the suppliers to visit local ethnographical museum and see the mummy of mammoth “Matilda”. Artem was impressed to learn that “Matilda” is the only fully preserved mammoth mummy in the world. The guide told him this could happen due to “Matilda”�s heroic deed – when she felt the death approaching she threw herself into a swamp so that her remainders shall not be eaten by wolves. Swamp bog soaked her body in to preserve in the original condition through thousands years. The body of Matilda was occasionally discovered in 1940ies during the irrigation works.

After the museum, Artem went toВ the airport where he evidenced aВ funny situation: the announcer was asking who lost umbrella inВ the airport. All passengers and visitors ofВ the terminal immediately started toВ check their umbrellas. Artem smiled as he thought what would happen if such announcement was done inВ aВ bigger airport with thousands visitors. Aboard the plane, he was solving chess puzzles not toВ fall asleep. Last night he had enough ofВ snow monsters.

Matrena Ledokolova

Matrena