Task Force in the Village

Lieutenant Nikita Ivashov, Baba Yaga and Mitka went on vacation to the village, hoping to have a good rest from business, but it wasn’t there. Supernatural things begin to happen in the village: poisoned salt falls on the operatives' dinner table, mermaids in the river try to prevent the apocalypse, people begin to disappear, a mysterious man in a black cloak shoots a policeman ... This is such a vacation in a Russian village!

Alla Gorelikova (“The World of Fantasy ”) notes that despite the small volume of the book, it is written at the proper level, like other books in this series ^[1] . Critics also note that the village of Podberezivka, in which the action takes place, symbolizes thousands of Russian villages with their eternal problems, the first of which is drunkenness ^[2] .

• Nikita Ivanovich Ivashov - junior lieutenant of the police, detective voivode under Tsar Gorokh.
• Baba Yaga is a forensic expert on the task force.
• Dmitry Lobov is a junior officer at the Lukoshkinsky police station. Not particularly brilliant in his mind!
• Proshka and Eroshka are two brothers who found the grave of Karga Gordynia, covered with salt and decided that they had discovered a new deposit. They sell this poisonous salt to the village.
• Harga Pride -

The ex-wife of Koshchei, whom he wanted to get rid of

• Kashchei -

A permanent villain who hates Ivashov and the entire human race. This time, however, he came to ask the police for help.

• Mitya Mama -

what to say here? Mom, she is mom. Mitya loves her very much, asks for a vacation, just to see her

• Clerk Gruzdev - there is nothing to talk about him. Everyone knows him as flaky
  • • * Manyasha -

Bride Mitka. Minor Persons:

• Warden
• Mermaids
• Manyashi's father