About the book: 2017 / Mammoths are almost like people, only big and furry. Two hundred years ago, the Russians found these amazing animals, declared them the property of the empire, saved them from extinction, and then the whole country, no matter what happened, preserved them as best it could. Chukotka livestock breeders and Russian zoologists valued their lives above their own. The mammoth is a symbol of Russia and its national character. At the very edge of our land - where it is cold, hungry, dark and sometimes scary - mammoths build roads, erect houses, transport goods and save those in trouble. The fates of the baby mammoth Katka and the boy Umka were predetermined long before their birth. But everything went awry, and now the director of the Zvezda Chukotka nursery has two problems - where to place the brilliant four-legged animal and how to bring his talented son to reason. Times are changing, and the future of the “workhorses of the Far North” is in question. Everyone must make difficult choices. Even a mammoth.