About the book: 2011 / The novel "*Skitniki*" by the famous Siberian writer Kamil Ziganshin is dedicated to the life history of the Old Believer community, which originated in the Vetluga forests in the middle of the 19th century, overcoming a difficult path through Siberia and settled in the Trans-Baikal Territory, then pushed into the wilderness of the Aldan Highlands and buried there to this day.