About the book: 2021 / The book offered to the reader’s attention is a documented history of the activities of Soviet Russia in Arabia, in the Persian Gulf zone and, fragmentarily, in the basin Red Sea. It contains unknown and little-known facts about the formation of relations between the Country of Soviets and Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Kuwait and the UAE, the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. The book contains a solid array of documents from the “Arabian files” of domestic archives. Based on the information gleaned from them and the fascinating memories preserved over time by participants in the process of building relations between the Soviet Union and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, the book will tell the reader about the “trade expeditions” of Soviet Russia to the lands of the “Islands of the Arabs”, about its first diplomatic posts there and about Soviet diplomats -pioneers in Arabia. Publishing layout saved in PDF A4 format.