Moon Dust.

"Russians are the most talented space researchers and computer scientists in the world. The secret of Russia's future prosperity is in its minds. It is the specialists who will lead your country to the leading powers," — these words of Arthur Clark are not accidental.

Clark's work often traces motives that are somehow connected with the USSR and Russia. For example, in the novel "Dolphin Island", published six years after the launch of Sputnik-1, one of the dolphins is called Sputnik, and one of the main characters is a Russian scientist Nikolai Kazan, who works on Dolphin Island off the coast of Australia, and during his illness his wife comes to him from Moscow. Arthur Clark very kindly welcomed the launch of the first satellite and cosmonaut into space in the USSR. In the USSR, Arthur Clarke was one of the most published Western science fiction writers in Russian and was considered "progressive". Most of his new novels were published almost immediately in the magazine "Technique to the Youth", with which editor-in-chief Vasily Zakharchenko Clark was personally acquainted. Arthur Clark has repeatedly visited the USSR, was familiar with many cosmonauts, political and cultural figures.