Alexandre Rouge is the winner of the second season of the Russian Detective award in the field of detective and action genres of literature and cinema in the Discovery of the Year nomination. Domestic and foreign authors, literary works written and published in Russia, competed for the right to be called the best in 2021 Russian language, as well as films and TV series. The jury members summed up the results and selected the winners in November 2021.1926. Having completed a dangerous investigation in Leningrad, an employee of a special group of the OGPU Special Department, Vadim Arsenyev, on instructions from the leadership, goes to the other end of the country - to distant Yakutia. There, at the “Pole of Cold” near the village of Oymyakon, there is the mysterious Lake Labynkyr, revered by local peoples. Ancient legends are associated with him, which suddenly received real confirmation. According to police reports, in the vicinity of the reservoir, torn to pieces hunters and reindeer herders are found, and surviving witnesses pass on from mouth to mouth terrible stories about monsters allegedly seen in the tundra...