Дерсу Узала
Arseniev is most famous for authoring many books about his explorations, including some 60 works on the geography, wildlife and ethnography of the regions he traveled. Arseniev's most famous book, "Dersu Uzala", is a memoir of three expeditions in the Ussurian "taiga" (forest) of Northern Asia along the Sea of Japan and North to Vladivostok. The book is named after Arseniev's guide, an Ussurian native of the Nanai/Goldi tribe. Eventually the book was made into two films, one by Soviet director Agasi Babayan in 1961, the other by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in 1975. Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala" won that year's Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. The third book of Arsenyev's trilogy, "In the Sikhote-Alin mountains", was published posthumously in 1937.