From the author: I have long lived the hope of writing about the history of the construction of the Northeast, where I worked for more than half a century, striving with my workmates to make our North comfortable and hospitable. The book uses the records I have preserved about the past, personal communication with many of the first builders, archival documents. All this allowed me to try to show in chronological sequence the conditions in which capital construction developed during the years of activity of Dalstroy, the economic council, and then the Magadan region. As a direct participant in long-standing events, I considered it my duty to write about the heroic work of the creators of material values, everything that the reader sees around me today: comfortable cities, towns and villages, mining combines, sea and river ports, energy and agricultural facilities, factories, roads, airports and much more...