The writer Oleg Kuvaev (1934-1975) was called the Soviet Jack London and the creator of the Soviet-era Moby Dick. Traveler, polar explorer, geologist, author of The Territory, a legendary novel about the search for gold in the north-east of the USSR. Kuvaev worked in Chukotka and Magadan, rafted alone along the northern rivers, wandered through the Caucasus and the Pamirs. An idealist merciless to himself, he wrote about man, his choice, natural life, his place in it.The authors of the first full biography of Kuvaev, journalist Vasily Avchenko (Vladivostok) and philologist Alexey Korovashko (Nizhny Novgorod), are convinced that this iconic and at the same time almost unexplored writer is even more relevant today than he was during his lifetime.Second edition, expanded.