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The novel by Igor Kovler, spanning several decades, incorporating the history of the North, the Golden River - Indigirka, the personality of the protagonist Yegor Perelygin, reflecting on time, about himself, about his generation of the "seventies", is a fusion of literature of fiction and literature of fact, a serious attempt understanding the events of perestroika years away from Moscow, where the fate of the land and people was determined by gold. "The Curse of Indigirka" is a bright, fascinating journey of Perelygin himself to the Golden River, where, working as a journalist, he became one of the main characters in an almost detective story of the death of a large gold deposit discovered in the late thirties.