The train is on Samarkand. Yakhina G.Sh.

Guzel Yakhin is the brightest debutant in the history of Russian literature, the winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana, the author of the bestsellers “Zuleikha opens eyes” and “My children”. Her new book “Echelon on Samarkand” is a traveling novel and a kind of “Red Istra”.

1923. The head of the echelon Deev and the Belaya Commissioner Evacuate five hundred street children from Kazan to Samarkand.

A series of exciting and terrible adventures on the way, vast geography-from the forests of the Volga and Kazakh steppes to the deserts of Kyzyl-Kuma and the mountains of Turkestan, palette Fates and characters: peasants-refugees, Chekists, Cossacks, the eccentric world of little tramps with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes...