Дерсу Узала

Vladimir Klavdievich Arsen'ev (1872—1930) was a geographer, writer, and traveler who filled in the blank spots on the map of the Far East. The plot of "Dersu Uzala" is based on the 1907 expedition in the Ussuri region, organized by the writer together with his friend, the Nanai hunter Dersu Uzala. The pictures of majestic taiga nature, dangerous adventures, and the fascinating life of small peoples with their everyday life, legends, and rituals — all this will leave no reader indifferent. In 1975, director Akira Kurosawa made a film of the same name, which won an Oscar. The novella "Dersu Uzala" is included in the list of "100 books on the history, culture, and literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation, recommended for independent reading by schoolchildren."