About the book: 2021 / We still don’t know what the Far East is. Can we use this strange designation that connects the Chukchi tundra and coastal subtropics, the Yakut pole of cold and Kuril bamboo? What is the uniqueness of this special purpose territory, the true border of Europe and Asia, the junction of the continent and the ocean, a sparsely populated province? Writer and journalist Vasily Avchenko tries to answer all these questions, addressing those who blazed the first trails, developed and defended, lived in the Far East. This is not a history textbook or local history. Rather, it is geolyrics, an attempt to decipher the hieroglyph of space, to understand the phenomenon of the territory and the person living on it.