“Chevengur” is the only completed novel in Platonov’s body of work. Written in 1926–1928. The first version of the novel was called “Builders of Spring.” Sent in 1929 for publication to the “Young Guard” publishing house, the novel never reached readers. During the writer’s lifetime — in 1928 — only excerpts from the novel were published: “The Origin of the Master” and “The Fisherman’s Descendant” in the magazine “Krasnaya Nov” (in 1929 both fragments were revised and combined into the novella “The Origin of the Master”) and the story “Adventure” in the magazine “Novy Mir.” Fragments titled “A Journey with an Open Heart” and “The Death of Kopenkin” were printed in “Literary Gazette” and in the magazine “Kuban” in 1971. In 1972, the French and Italian translations of the novel were published. The first complete publication in the West in Russian appeared in 1978. In the USSR, publication became possible only during perestroika. In 1988, “Chevengur” was published in the magazine “Friendship of Peoples” and then issued as a book.