Almost all adult men here are professional poachers. It turned out that on this relatively small plot of land events comparable in intensity to the Colombian drug wars take place. Lobanov told him about the morals prevailing here. In the past they served together in the Special Forces, then Lobanov returned to his native village, and Beketov went to the city to work in police, but was fired from there for being overly principled.īeketov never visited these places and was not familiar with the circumstances of local life and work. Andrei Beketov came to the Volga delta to relax and visit his friend Sergei Lobanov, who works as a fishery protection inspector.