Three books
Two written by Igor Mironenko, one by Eugene Platon, all three written in Russian. English translations are being made now — human translations into Australian English, not machine output — and the site is built to carry the Russian and the English side by side, so a passage can be read in either and cited in both.
Создание яхты «Фазиси»
The Making of Yacht Fazisi (Russian)
The build. Nine months from a decision to a Whitbread maxi, in a boatyard in Poti on the Black Sea, by a crew who had never built anything like it — told by someone who was in the shed and then on the boat.
This is the volume that makes the case for the whole archive: it is a primary account of an event that has almost no first-hand English-language record, and it contains 74 photographs that exist nowhere else.
Гонта
Gonta (Russian)
The longer story, and the earlier one: building a yacht and every fitting on her at a Kiev yacht club between 1978 and 1981, then sailing her far enough to lose a mast off Western Australia and to leave a plaque on Direction Island. 130 photographs.
Русские идут
The Russians Are Coming, by Eugene Platon (Russian)
Platon's account of the Fazisi campaign. It is his work and his copyright, and he has published it himself — so this archive links to his edition rather than reproducing it.
How these should be published
Not as 12 MB downloads with no title, which is what they were. Both Mironenko volumes carry a real text layer, so a proper reader is achievable today: chapter navigation, selectable text, and a stable URL per chapter so a passage can be cited.
With full English translations coming, that reader carries two languages at one address: the same chapter URL, a language switch, and the Russian as the text of record. An English reader gets the whole book rather than a summary of it; a Russian reader still gets Igor's own words.
Around the text: a plate selection of eight to twelve photographs per book with English captions, and a synopsis of a few hundred words so the shape of each volume is legible before anyone commits to 300 pages.
The 204 photographs embedded in the two PDFs have already been extracted at full resolution and are ready for that selection.