About the book: 1969 / The story by Yu. Shamshurin is dedicated to the events of the civil war in Yakutia. The indigenous population - Yakut hunters, deceived by the local rich Toyons - join the White rebel detachments. The illiterate, downtrodden poor, entangled in religious and tribal prejudices, at first do not understand that they are fighting against the power of the working people. The book “They Shoot in the Taiga” is about the gradual awakening of their class consciousness. Yu. Shamshurin lived in Yakutia for many years and knows the life and customs of this region well. The first part of the story under the same title was published in 1967 by the publishing house "Soviet Writer"».