This book stands apart among numerous publications. In terms of breadth of coverage, volume of carefully selected material, liveliness of presentation and clarity of pictures, the novel has no analogues in post-perestroika Siberian literature. The author generously unfolds the historical canvas before the reader: the development by Russian pioneers of uncharted lands on the outskirts of the Irkutsk province, east of Kamchatka. This is a huge territory, several thousand kilometers long, wild and inaccessible, as if hidden, preserving its wealth until its time. For thousands, millions of years the wealth lay hidden, and now the time has come! As if by magic, peoples moved into unknown lands, towards a new life, towards their destiny. It seemed that there, beyond the ocean, where the sun rises from the waters of the sea, an extraordinary life awaits them. They moved in convoys along muddy roads, walked along taiga paths, swayed on the waves of the sea in order to set foot on an inhospitable, gloomy land, stand firmly on this land and remain on it forever.