The cultural development of the territory is no less important than the administrative, military, and economic development. This publication is a collection of essays about the literary pioneers of the Far East. These writers continued - following the navigators, military men, and diplomats - the work of adding remote eastern territories and waters to Russia. Among the heroes of the book are recognized classics Ivan Goncharov, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Prishvin, and the outstanding traveler, scientist, writer Vladimir Arsenyev, and the white emigrant, poet, prose writer Arseny Nesmelov, who lived in Vladivostok and Harbin, and geophysicist Oleg Kuvaev, the author of the cult novel “Territory”. . The American Jack London may seem foreign in this list, but he, according to the author, Vladivostok journalist and prose writer Vasily Avchenko, is connected with Russia and its Far Eastern peripheries much more firmly than it might seem. This book is not only about destinies and texts, but also about the Far East itself, its past and present.