Oleg Kuvaev: A Tale of an Unregulated Man

The writer Oleg Kuvaev (1934–1975) was called the Soviet Jack London and the creator of Moby Dick of the Soviet era. A traveler, polar explorer, geologist, and author of Territory—a legendary novel about the search for gold in the northeast... of the USSR. Kuvaev worked in Chukotka and Magadan, navigated northern rivers solo, and wandered through the Caucasus and Pamir. Ruthless to himself, an idealist, he wrote about man, his choices, natural life, and one's place in it. The authors of the first complete biography of Kuvaev, journalist Vasily Avchenko from Vladivostok and philologist Alexey Korovashko from Nizhny Novgorod, are convinced that this cult figure, while almost unexplored, is even more relevant today than during his lifetime. This is the second, expanded edition.