The novel by the famous Russian writer Vadim Safonov “The Road to the Open Space” tells about Ermak’s campaign in Siberia, about the Don Ponizov freemen, the Perm towns of the Stroganov mining workers, the kingdom of the Tatar Khan Kuchum on the Irtysh.

But above all, this a novel about the feat of mighty people, which has been preserved in people's memory for more than four centuries. This is a fascinating story about the stormy, harsh, contradictory personality of the one who led these people - the Cossack ataman Ermak; about what moved him, relentlessly drove him, pulled him forward, to defeats and victories...