About the book: 1965 / The author of the book, geologist Boris Ivanovich Vronsky, worked in Kolyma for a quarter of a century. While still a student, while working at one of the Aldan mines, he heard about the distant, mysterious Kolyma and became eager to get to this region, about which there were vague rumors as a land of fabulous riches - a kind of northern Eldorado. And now the dream comes true. In 1931, a young geologist travels to Kolyma as part of a geological expedition... Harsh nature, difficult, complex, but extremely interesting work of geologists who explored this wild, unknown region, hopes and disappointments, the joy of first discoveries, difficult, sometimes life-threatening situations - everything this is described in the book vividly and vividly. The gentle humor inherent in the author’s style gives the story some special sincerity..