Territory. Kuvaev O.

Oleg Mikhailovich Kuvaev (1934–1975) - polar geologist, geophysicist, writer and traveler, who took several very complex independent routes, including in search of the legendary Silver Mountain and a half -mythical bear in the deaf valleys of the Anadyr Highlands. The novel “Territory” is the most famous work of Kuvaev, who has longed for dozens of publications, twice filmed and translated into many languages. Industrial gold intelligence on Chukotka in the 1950s. - Only one of the topics of the novel. Moreover, the word "Chukotka" in the novel is never mentioned. The author calls the territory of the country invented by him - "and let everyone seek it where he wishes." The territory is a place where not only gold is gained, but also the highest meaning of their existence on Earth; Where strong and courageous people are given to know the “beauty and rudeness of the real world”; Where, entering into a furious confrontation with nature, they live like that "as it should live for a man and a man."