Chuk and Gek

Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (1904-1941) - a Soviet writer, author of children's books ("The Blue Cup", "Timur and His Team", "The Fate of the Drummer", etc.), 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 squad. 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 a military correspondent for various newspapers and magazines.
Originally, the story "Chuk and Gek" was printed in the magazine "Krasnaya Nov'" in 1939. The main characters of this pre-New Year story are two brothers, Chuk and Gek. They are cheerful, mischievous, and restless boys who do not even need to seek adventures—they find them themselves. Their mischief with a lost letter, which they did not tell their mother about, leads to them ending up thousands of kilometers from home, deep in the taiga, near the Blue Mountains, but they cannot meet their geologist father, who had asked them to postpone the trip. And then real difficulties and adventures begin! Friendship and kindness, warm, trusting relationships within the family, and mutual support help the Seregin family cope with unforeseen circumstances.