Chuk and Gek

Chuk and Gek

Cover of Chuk and Gek (2007) in Russian, by ACT
Author Arkady Gaidar
Original title Чук и Гек
Translator Leonard Stocklitsky (English)
Illustrator A Yermolayev
Country Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Language Russian
Genre Children's literature
Publisher Detgiz Publishers
Progress Publishers, Moscow
Publication date
 1939
Media type Print

Chuk and Gek (Russian: Чук и Гек) is a 1939 Russian short-story written by Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar.[1] It was adapted as a film in 1953, directed by Ivan Lukinsky.[2]

Publication history

Arkady Gaidar started working upon the story in December 1938. It was initially published under the title "Telegramma" (The Telegram) in the No. 2, 1939, issue of Krasnaya Nov magazine. Later that year it came out as a separate book (Detgiz Publishers, illustrations by A Yermolayev), with considerable changes made by the author and re-titled, as "Chuk I Gek". In 1940 the story featured in Gaidar's Detgiz compilation Rasskazy (Short Stories).[3]

Summary

In Soviet Moscow, young Chuk and Gek Seriogin live with their mother while their father is away in Siberian taiga for geological research. As the New Year closes in, Mr. Seriogin, longing to see his wife and children, sends a telegram asking them to come over. After making a very long and eventful train journey and a two-day journey through taiga on a dog sled, they arrive to find that papa Seriogin and his team of geological researchers are not at the base.

The guard returns from hunting and announces that the geological research team is gone for a ten-day trip to Alkarash Gorge and he himself will be gone for two days. While the three can stay in the guard's hut, he has no keys to the main houses or the storage. Chuk, Gek and their mother must now survive the next ten days in this wilderness all by themselves, with only the meagre supply that they have brought with them.

References

  1. ↑ sovlit.net SovLit (Arkady Gaidar)
  2. ↑ Chuk and Gek (Internet Movie Database)
  3. ↑ Ebin, F. Commentaries to Чук и Гек. Works by Arkady Gaidar in 4 volumes. Detskaya Literatura Publishers. Moscow, 1964. Vol. 3. Pp. 397-398.

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