In the Ussuri Region. Dersu Uzala

The books of the famous traveler Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev (1872–1930) "In the Ussuri Region" and "Dersu Uzala" had a difficult path to the reader. The future renowned ethnographer, geographer, archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian, who was then a staff captain in the Russian army, began working on them in 1906: leading an expedition to the mountainous region of Sikhote-Alin, he finally had the opportunity to fulfill a long-held dream and engage in the study of the Far East, to which he dedicated his entire subsequent life. Using notes from travel diaries as the basis, Vladimir Arsenyev transformed them into captivating adventure prose, preserving both the freshness of immediate impressions and the truthfulness of an eyewitness's account. When, after years of work on the texts, the books were finally ready for publication, the outbreak of the October Revolution made publication impossible for several years... Starting in 1920, Arsenyev's works began to be published in his homeland, and by 1924, a German translation of the books "In the Ussuri Region" and "Dersu Uzala" was published in Berlin with the participation of Fridtjof Nansen. The books gained particular popularity through film adaptations – the 1961 film (“Dersu Uzala,” directed by Agasi Babayan) and especially the Oscar-winning film of 1975 (“Dersu Uzala,” directed by Akira Kurosawa).