Aleksey Ryzhov goes to the Pechora region for student field practice—to study folklore—and stays in the far north for many years. His further fate becomes connected with journalism. Such is the outer thread of the destiny of a young man beginning an independent life. The novel “Thirty-Six and Six” is devoted to the theme of learning life and hardening one’s character in difficult life circumstances. The events of the novel begin shortly after the Great Patriotic War.