A young man who grew up in the forests of Sakhalin, after graduating from college, becomes a botanist of the Kurilsky Nature Reserve, created just a year ago. And he plunges headlong into the riot of wild nature of the southernmost of the Kuril Islands - Kunashir Island. Day after day, the author works in the forests of the reserve. The field diaries of this researcher are the contents of this book. For most people in our large country, the Kuril Islands are a chain of faceless islands, lost in the endless mists of the Pacific Ocean. And Kunashir is one of them! Kunashir... This is the southernmost of the large Kuril Islands. The nature of this island is amazing! This is the bottomless world of the wild forest! My childhood and youth were spent in the forests of Sakhalin. I worked in the Poronaisky Nature Reserve in Sakhalin, in the Lazovsky Nature Reserve in the Primorsky Territory, in the Botchinsky Nature Reserve in the Khabarovsk Territory. But I have never seen such a concentration of wild life on one square meter of “forest surface” anywhere. Unimaginable burdocks; rivers full of fish; bears, eagles. Forest life among volcanoes... Numerous encounters with relict plants, amazing birds and dangerous animals... The forest world of Kunashir is full of exotics! The cordons of the reserve are lost in this sea of forest. From morning to evening - forest, forest and forest... This is physically difficult and often dangerous work. This book will be of interest to those who are delirious about the romance of travel, expeditions through the wild expanses of the Russian Far East. Each chapter is a year of forest life of a researcher at the reserve "Kurilsky". My idol G. A. Fedoseev wrote about the expeditions of surveyors, about the difficult and heroic field life of these people. And I tried to talk in simple language about the forest life of a researcher at the Kuril Nature Reserve. All encounters with plants and animals are absolutely real. This is literally a sketch from life! I tried to describe each such meeting down to the smallest detail, with documentary accuracy. Using words, not paints, to very accurately paint the picture you see... I am very grateful to Alexey Kapustyan for this book. Without him, nothing would have happened. I will be grateful to him for this all my life. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.