About the book: 2014 / The town of Kolpashevo stands in the depths of the Siberian taiga on the high bank of the river Ob. It's been standing for a long time - maybe hundreds of four years. Everything happened in it at different times. But when the turbid and gloomy thirties of the last century came, the terrible Yarzona, an NKVD execution prison, grew up on the outskirts of Kolpashev. In the depths of the mighty Kolpashevo Yar, a whole labyrinth of adits and drifts arose, where for a whole decade the bloody executioners, the “Chikists,” destroyed the “enemies of the people.” The fate of one of them and that dark time is the subject of a new novel by the famous Siberian writer Veniamin Anisimovich Kolykhalov..