The Distant and the Near

3 hrs. 14 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Pavel Bazhov

Narrator Sergey Zobnin

Description

“Any of the teenagers knew that the city was forty-seven versts away, that the hardest place on the road was the crooked Shemanaev hill, and that in the city there was the “iron circle” and the “station bog.” There was a noticeable surcharge on the freight fee for the “iron circle” and the “bog,” but every iron hauler tried to “snatch up a trip to the shop”…”