Chuk and Gek

Arkady Petrovich Gaidar 1904-1941 - a Soviet writer, author of children's books Blue Cup, Timur and His Team, The Fate of the Drummer, and others. He participated in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. He dreamed of going to the front and fighting, like his father. A.P. Gaidar was only 14 years old when he became the commander of a detachment. In 1922, he was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army. The first work of A.P. Gaidar was published in 1925. It was the story In Days of Defeats and Victories. Since 1932, the writer worked as a special and later military correspondent for various newspapers and magazines. Initially, the story Chuk and Gek was titled Telegram, and it was published under that name in the magazine Red New in 1939. The main characters of this pre-New Year's story are two brothers born in the same year, Chuk and Gek. They are cheerful, mischievous, and restless boys who do not even need to seek adventures - they find them themselves. The mischief with the lost telegram, which they did not tell their mother about, leads them to find themselves thousands of kilometers from home, deep in the taiga, near the Blue Mountains, but they cannot meet their father, a geologist, who in the telegram asked them to postpone their trip. And then real difficulties and adventures begin! Friendship and kindness, warm, trusting relationships within the family, and mutual support help the Seryogins family cope with unforeseen circumstances.