About the book: 2021 / In 2021, Fridtjof Nansen celebrated the 160th anniversary of the birth of Fridtjof Nansen and the 100th anniversary of his humanitarian mission - as High Commissioner of the League of Nations he organized international aid to the starving people of Soviet Russia. The book by the Paulsen publishing house is dedicated to the activities of the famous Norwegian in the Volga region and other regions of the country. The main region of work of the Nansen Mission is the Saratov province, which suffered most from the famine of the 1920s. Thanks to the efforts of Nansen and foreign charitable organizations, thousands of lives were saved. The scientist not only supplied humanitarian aid, but also fought one of the causes of hunger - low agricultural productivity. His unique project for opening agricultural stations in Soviet Russia has no analogues. The book, for the first time in Russian literature, talks in detail about all aspects of the humanitarian assistance that Nansen provided.