About the book: year / This book is about the largest gold-bearing province in our country, occupying the regions of Verkhoyansk, Kolyma, Chukotka. The authors share their impressions after traveling along the “Golden Arc”, introducing the reader to the modern Siberian North, its nature and people. Like a tightly drawn bow, the ridges of Verkhoyansk, Kolyma and Chukotka arched, forming the great mountain barrier of the extreme northeast of Siberia. Back in the thirties, behind it lay an unknown land, the riches of which were legendary. Now here is the greatest, widely known gold-bearing province. Writer and traveler Viktor Boldyrev and sculptor Ksenia Ivanovskaya talk about this harsh, beautiful region in its own way. For a whole year they moved along the “Golden Arc”, covering nine thousand kilometers by helicopters and airplanes, on barges, boats, boats and rafts, on reindeer, dog sleds, on horseback and just on foot..