An exciting historical detective story from the winner of the Russian Detective Award Nikolai Svechin.The action of Nikolai Svechin's novel "Ural Echo" takes place in the summer of 1913: a detective police supervisor went missing in St. Petersburg. The body has not been found, but it is obvious that he was killed by criminals.Suspicion falls on a major metropolitan criminal authority named Count Platov. The search for the killer reached a dead end, but during them it was possible to find platinum stolen from the Ural mines. Terrorists from the gang of the Ural militant Lbov dug out the treasure of the ataman from the ground and are preparing to kill the tsar with this money! Lykov and his assistant Azvestopulo urgently left for Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals, where they managed to uncover a scheme of embezzlement of precious metals, arrest Platov and defeat local social revolutionaries. But they did not expect at all that they themselves would be drawn into a criminal whirlpool…