The rollicking adventurous detective story “The Secrets of the Nameless Battery” was miraculously published in the “red” Vladivostok in the first months of 1923. Among the authors of this tiny collective novel, which until now remained unknown to readers, are A. Nesmelov, in the future the most prominent poet of Russian China, and the gifted prose writer and poet, wanderer and tramp B. Beta (Butkevich). The novel “Secrets of the Nameless Battery,” which takes place against the backdrop of turbulent events in Vladivostok in the early 1920s, is being republished for the first time.