The novel is devoted to the process of collectivization in the USSR. The action takes place on the Don farmstead of Gremyachy Log in 1930. The task of creating a collective farm is entrusted to former sailor and worker Semyon Davydov.
An old record! Nikolai Timofeyevich Koziy read the novel “Virgin Soil Turned Up” in 1967, and in 1979 the recording was restored.