In 1957 Evgeniy Simonov put his third youth performance on stage, “Town at dawn”. The play which was created by the whole famous studio of Arbuzov before the war was called a “romantic chronicle” and spoke about the first builders of  Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The Vakhtangov  “Town at dawn” was acted out on a plain stage floor like in an earlier studio performance. The episodes rotated with cinematographic frequency: quarrels, amorousnesses, betrayals, heroic deeds. “Town at dawn” in many ways anticipated the future famous “Irkutsk Story”.