The protagonist of Arkady Gaidar's book 'Timur i ego Komanda' ('Timur & his Squad'), which came out in 1940, forms a group of children at a dacha village (cluster of countryside cottages) to help the elderly and families whose relatives are serving in the Red Army. One of his main tasks is to knock some sense into local hooligan Mishka Kvakin who, together with his gang, keeps stealing fruit from the
