The book tells about little-known pages in the history of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the middle of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. and the sea transport and fishing development of the Kamchatka coast during the 1920-1940s. The fate of individual personalities who made a significant contribution to the development and development of our peninsula and its administrative center. The difficult relations that developed in Kamchatka between the Russians and the Japanese in the field of fishing are characterized.