A mysterious murder occurs at a mine, lost in the distant Yakut taiga. It is too different from ordinary criminal offenses. And the security officers rush in pursuit of agents of foreign intelligence services - experienced enemies who skillfully confuse their tracks, stopping at nothing... “Footprints in the Snow” is the famous novel by the classic of Russian action-packed literature Georgy Bryantsev, whose centenary of birth was celebrated in 2004.