Mysterious and tragic go hand in hand in the Arctic. The dead and disappeared expeditions of the distant past, the ships of Rusanov and Brusilov, which disappeared already in the 20th century, the disappeared plane of Sigismund Levanevsky, the secrets associated with the epic rescue of the icebreaker Krasin by General Nobile, the mysterious Sannikov Land similar mirage islands in the Arctic Ocean - the reader learns about this and many other things from the book...