The City by Margarita Tokareva

The city was on the border
between two large countries, both could not divide it, so they forgot about this place, in the gorge, between the two mountains. Therefore, there were gathered different men who left their countries. They were hiding from their past, skillfully pretending to be ordinary handymen.
There was an evening - a time when once again tired after a hard day workers, gathered in a bar. Each of them was united by some things, but in spite of this they remained strangers to each other. When the door to the bar was opened by a woman tired of the long distance and asked for help, the men did not know what to do. There was no hospital in the city, and the distance to the nearest medical center was huge. They put her on the bed and brought water. While one brave man, who ran after the doctor, came back late. The mum died after, having given birth to a child. People did not know what to do with baby, when suddenly he came out of the circle that surrounded the little girl, and said: «I'll take her to me». Everything was very surprised by what happened. The man was the most closed and quiet, and his house could be called a dirty shack.
When he brought the child home, he looked at her for a long time. He liked how she glared at him with her brilliant eyes and smiled all the time. After a while he noticed that such a clean, still nothing bad impregnated baby inside, could not be wrapped up in such a terrible rag. he found his cleanest sheet and cut out of it a cozy blanket, but now, when he put it in a blanket in the box in which he brought her home, he decided to make her a crib. A day later, the baby was already lying in a clean blanket and a beautiful bed, but now the beautiful bed looked too strange against the backdrop of shabby walls and black from the tobacco smoke ceiling, so it was time to repair, he thought and then, a week later, on a new couch, shaved and in just bought a clean shirt, surrounded by newly pasted wallpaper and whitewashed ceiling, the old man sitting, pleased with the work done, still could not take his eyes off the little miracle and gradually he began to feel something unusual around his chest...
The next day men and baby went out into the street. At that time of year there was warm and dry weather. The old man, looking at how his girl plays, realized that he was not clever and for what the sandpiper and everything around the shack look like. Therefore, he decided to go after his friend and together they began to repair. After some time they finished with a new house, built a swing, planted flowers and built a new sandbox.
People who lived around, seeing those changes that took place in the life of the old man began to gradually take an example from him and change themselves and their homes, so day after day the town became a cozy and beautiful place, and the inhabitants began to lead a different way of life.