Vasily Peskov, a journalist and writer, special correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda, is well known to readers as the author of books about nature, about our Fatherland, about bright and interesting people. The works of Vasily Peskov have received many awards, including the Lenin Prize. Vasily Peskov travels a lot around the country and has visited many parts of the world. The documentary story “Taiga Dead End” is the result of many years of observations of the “Robinsonade” of a family of Old Believers in mountainous Khakassia. The book tells about the famous Lykov family, who lived in isolation from people for more than thirty years. We first learned about the taiga discovery of geologists from a newspaper publication in 1982. Since then, the author of the first essay, Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov, visited the Lykovs for seven years. A story about each trip was published in Komsomolskaya Pravda. These stories made up the book. The text of the book is supplemented by later reports by the author in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and materials from the website www.kp.ru (up to 2006) Original file ( with a complete set of photos) is located at: The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.