here is a Russian saying: fair heat breaks no bones. What does it mean? It means, it is better for the temperature to be somewhat higher than somewhat lower. Is there such a saying in other languages? We do not know. But we are aware that out of 12 million people living in the extreme north, 11 million are Russians.

Why then in our time, when there are more satellites than stars in the sky and the laser has turned from a speculative object created by sci-fi authors into a cheap casual gadget, solid-fuel stoves have not disappeared from our everyday life?

However much we try look down on them, these stoves continue to deserve our respect. They say, even in Japan, in the country of super-high technologies with more electronic pets than live dogs in the streets, each household is prescribed to have a solid-fuel stove, just in case.

These stoves are known for their phenomenal simplicity and reliability. Atomizing burners, tubes, wiring, clips, etc. — everything that may get frozen, clogged, bended or broken, does so in the most inappropriate moment. At the same time, it is as difficult to imagine a broken solid-fuel stove, just as it is difficult to imagine a broken crow-bar.

Anyone can heat this stove. Already after a minute heat starts to build up from the rising flames, stirring up hope and confidence in the future.

In emergency situations, a steel box with a chimney is simply irreplaceable. Since the times of the Leningrad Siege we have been very well aware about this fact.

No one has immunity for cold.