It's 1976. The October Revolution died down, the Great Patriotic War ended, Stalin died, the era of industrialization swept by, the Soviet Union is confidently striding into a bright communist future... But somewhere in the taiga there is an Object for which time has stood still. Strange and scary things happen there. Will Petr Gause, the mammoth hunter, be able to change something? A work from a classic of Russian literature that is unfamiliar to a wide range of readers.