Evgeny Ivanovich Starkov was born on February 27, 1934, in the city of Perm. His conscious childhood was spent in a private house in the Old Plosky settlement. ... Once, Starkov tried to enter the Oil Geological Prospecting Technical School, but he didn’t make it through the competition. All his life, romance on distant roads called to him. About this romance, about the beauty of nature, he wrote and published an adventure book, “Zolotyanka.”