In 1928–1929, Vladimir Tan-Bogoraz prepared for publication four volumes of his fiction works about the North, which were released by the ZIF publishing house.
In 1927–1928 he wrote “Several unexpectedly for himself, stealing leisure time from scientific work,” a large novel “The Union of Young,” a broad canvas of exile at the beginning of the century, the revolution and the civil war in the North. “Written from letters and from stories of eyewitnesses and participants—Northern students who arrived here for the rabfak—and the colors, of course, were old, immortally alive in memory,” Tan-Bogoraz wrote about the novel “The Union of Young.”