What to expect from the diaries of a twenty-three-year-old? - feelings, thoughts about the future path. So our author sets off. Only knows exactly where - to a desert island. He knows why - to organize a polar station on the ice seaside. Fifteen such stations were established during the second International Polar Year (1932-1933) to provide sea and air assault on the Arctic. These seven years, from 1932 to 1939, are the Arctic "Western" with overcoming, love, conflicts, mutual assistance, a unique opportunity for pioneers to perpetuate their names on the world map. The name of the author of these diaries also became a toponym on the land he lived in: the Sokolova River flows at the northern tip of Kotelny Island. The first publication of the diaries of the station manager on Kotelny Island will tell the reader about the short heroic life of this wonderful person.