In the Ussuri Region

Vladimir Arsenyev dedicated most of his life to the exploration of the Far East. Even during the author's lifetime, the region began to change — the dense forests thinned out, the roar of the tiger was replaced by the rumble of a steam locomotive, and in place of small Chinese shacks, large Russian villages grew. However, on the pages of Arsenyev's prose, the unique nature of the Far East comes to life in its primal beauty. With a lively literary language and meticulous attention to the smallest details, Vladimir Klavdievich describes his wanderings through the hills and taiga, painting a picture of the unique nature of the region and the customs of its inhabitants. "In the Ussuri Region" is Arsenyev's first work where he describes his journeys in 1902 and 1906 in the mountainous areas of Sikhote-Alin. It is in this work that the reader learns the story of the author's acquaintance with the gold prospector Dersu Uzala, who became a friend of the writer and a faithful companion in his further travels.