Gennady Aleksandrovich Isikov is a famous writer, member of the Russian Union of Writers, candidate member of the International Union of Writers, winner of many literary competitions. The book “Heirs of Dersu” is one of the author’s best works; it is not for nothing that an excerpt from it is included in the “Anthology for high school age “The World through the Eyes of Modern Writers”” in the series “Writers of the 21st Century”, “Contemporaries and Classics”. The novel, written in the best traditions of Soviet classical prose, takes the reader back to the great era of developed socialism in our country. Sergei, having graduated from a forestry technical school in Kazakhstan, after reading a book by military topographical engineer V.K. Arsentieva "Dersu Uzala", dreams of seeing the places where the famous expedition visited at the beginning of the century. He goes to work in the Ussuri taiga. More than half a century has passed, and the taiga is no longer a corner of wild nature, but a territory actively being changed by human activity. Man has become the master of the taiga, but will he ever be able to become its good friend, take responsibility for the animals, birds, and forest? The heroes of the novel are real representatives of the generation of the 70s, honest, open, sincere and happy, because they know how to live, they believe that a bright future will definitely come if they work hard for the good of society. The novel will be interesting to readers of all ages .