Gold!.. Who and at what times did not look for it? So at the beginning of the formation of the Soviet state, the question arose about the deployment of exploration and exploration parties of gold deposits. At the direction of Stalin, specialists from other countries were involved, in particular, mining engineer John Littlepage, who worked in Alaska. An excellent storyteller, he spoke in private conversations about his work in the Glavzoloto trust, about Soviet mines, about the organization of the gold mining industry controlled by the NKVD, about the situation of workers and women's labor in mines, as well as about smelting industries in the South Urals, Kazakhstan, Bashkiria, Yakutia, Western Siberia, where he had to work... Conversations with him, which were recorded by journalist Demari Bess, formed the basis of this book.