and there was one main powerful organization, dalstroy. until 1953, it was subordinate to the ministry of internal affairs. this trust, with its center in magadan, was engaged in the development of minerals; prisoners were employed here for simple work. magadan is a city, pevek is a settlement, and dalstroy is called severstroy. the heroes of the territory are those very real people, dalstroy employees, who searched for uranium in chukotka, tin, kinovore, mercury ore, and of course, gold. it was not for nothing that pevek was called the chukchi klandaik. the central character of the novel is chinkov, in whom nikolai ilyich chemodanov is clearly discernible. under his leadership , coal deposits, artuti and tin were discovered in chukotka. from 1950, he headed the chaun geologist. exploration direction, and his main dream was to find gold. chemodanov really took a risk, because there were instructions from magadan to deal with tin and no money was allocated for gold prospecting. well, you know, this story, in fact so fascinating and interest

and there is one, the main powerful organization, dalstroy.until fifty-three, it was subordinated ministry of internal affairs. this trust with its center in magadan was engaged in the development of minerals, prisoners were employed in simple jobs here. magadan is a city. and its main dream was to find gold. chemodanov really took a risk, because magadan gave instructions to deal with tin and did not allocate money for gold prospecting. well, you know, this is a story on... it is interesting that in order to understand it, it is probably not enough to read the novel itself, the territory, you also need to know some historical, probably geological basis, indeed, among geologists had the opinion that if a province is a mountainous geological province rich in tin, then there can be no gold here, but chinkov, aka nikolai ilyevich kommandanov, at his own risk... began gold mining here, and if you imagine that these were the times of dalstroy, then you could pay not only with your career, you could pay with much more serious things, and gold was fo