Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (1904-1941) was a writer, war correspondent, participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. "Chuk and Gek" is one of his most famous works about two brothers who receive a letter from their father, a geologist, from a distant taiga, that he is waiting for them to visit him. And then the boys and their mother go thousands of kilometers into the endless snow-covered taiga to the Blue Mountains. But upon arrival, it turns out that there was also a telegram (in a fight, Chuck and Huck accidentally threw it out of the window), in which the father asks to postpone the arrival for a while. And then the fun begins.…The book is the first to be published with illustrations by artist Tatiana Bulgakova. For the middle school age.