The eighth volume of the Library of the Siberian Novel in 20 volumes includes the novels Borel and Gold by Pyotr Petrov. For its time, the novel "Borel" was a work of extremely relevant and topical. It faithfully conveys the atmosphere of the era, the unique flavor of time. The civil war had just ended. Devastation and desolation at a distant Siberian mine, where small predators operate. The last equipment is pulled apart along the screw. People deprived of their favorite business drink and descend. The novel "Gold" is a direct continuation of the ideas and trends of "Boreli" and tells about the next, new historical stage, about the heated atmosphere of socialist construction during the first five-year plan.