Children of the Soviet arctic
By: by Tikhon Semushkin.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1944
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Social life and customs.
First sentence: One misty September morning in the year 1928 the steamer Astrakham glided slowly into the ice-strewn bay of Penkegnei, a lonely stretch of water about one hundred and twelve miles south of Lawrence Bay, and there on the desolate shore landed a party of workers en route for the Kultbaz. 1
Description: An account between 1928 and 1934 of Russian school teachers arriving in the Chukotsky Peninsula to teach the russian eskimo children.
Notes: 1  kultbaz - literally Cultural Base - a settlement of Soviet specialists in a backward region to help the local population to develop a higher standard of living through co-operation and the application of modern technique.

There are 46 Chapters in Book One and 28 Chapters in Book Two commencing  6 years after book one.
Table of contents: label: I
pagenum: 5
class: chapter
title: Eskimos; label: II
pagenum: 6
title: At the Kultbaz