About the book: 1979 / Sansone, Vito. "SIBERIA. EPIC OF THE CENTURY “Based on rich factual material and personal impressions from trips to Siberia, the author unfolds in the book a wide panorama of the current life of the peoples of this region, talks about grandiose plans for its transformation. Impressive pictures of the industrial development of Soviet Siberia are interspersed with thoughts about various aspects of the “Siberian miracle”, everyday sketches and historical digressions. The writer shows the enthusiasm of the Soviet people, the romance of the development of distant and harsh regions, objectively speaks about the real problems and enormous difficulties standing in the way of the pioneers. Leon, Max. “SIBERIAN CHALLENGE” This is what the author called one of the parts of his new book about the USSR, dedicated to an exciting problem - the development of the gigantic Siberian expanses. This is a kind of retrospective of reports made in different places and at different times - from 1959 to the most recent years. The narrative takes the reader from Khabarovsk in the late fifties to an Arctic station in the mid-sixties, from the western section of the BAM at the time of the start of construction - to the eastern section during its height, and from there - to the island of Sakhalin, exotic and fabulously distant for the writer’s compatriots, but becoming ever closer thanks to that grandiose attack on Siberia undertaken by the Soviet people.