About the book: year / In the very center of Asia, behind the Sayan ranges, lies the Tuvan Republic, which is now called the Republic of Tyva. Tuvans call their homeland "Tanna Tuva", which means "Blue Tuva" in Russian. Tuva is a country of blue lakes and blue taiga, because in summer the needles on the larches are bluish. In Tuva there is not only taiga, but also sultry sandy deserts where camel caravans go; mountains with eternally snowy peaks. People ride here on yaks; The steppe where the grass grows is so high that the rider is not visible in it. This book is about the mountain taiga, where lonely cedars grow high in the mountains, and at dawn, when the fog rises, a mother bear leads her cubs to a mountain river to catch graylings, and in the silence you can hear the cry of a forest raven. When the sun rises, striped chipmunks wake up, they sit on the tops of cedars and bask in the sun. On the lake, a huge taimen loudly beats its tail on the water, and the deer shudders and looks around anxiously. If you look at the taiga from the height of an eagle's flight, you will see hunting villages, fishermen who go down the rivers in their narrow light boats, distant huts in forest glades and high in the mountain tundra - herds of reindeer. The author of this book, Gennady Snegirev, has traveled the length and breadth of Tuva and shares his impressions of this amazing land with readers. But there is rightfully another name on the cover of this book. This is the artist Ivan Bruni. His magnificent illustrations will help you see the most picturesque corners of Blue Tuva. These are stories about the Tuvan taiga, about how fishermen and hunters live, about fast rivers and blue lakes, about how they ride deer, how they hunt bear and sable, about a hunter’s hut and about man’s faithful assistants - fearless huskies.