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My father’s stories, in seven languages

I’ve updated Yuri Nevsky’s section with published texts, covers, sources and translations into six languages. You can now read them in seven.

FamilyNovember 4, 20261 min read

Yuri Nevsky at a desk with an open book in an imagined study overlooking space

I’ve updated the section devoted to my father, the science fiction writer Yuri Nevsky. His work is now available in Russian, English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German and Spanish.

The published works have covers, source references and dates of first publication. Where scans are available, the texts were checked against them. Buryat Smoke includes the complete PDF issue of Baikal that my father sent me.

The section currently contains 12 pieces: stories, journal installments of novels and a preface. I’m still building the archive; it isn’t a complete collected edition. Below is the full published selection, with covers and links.

Read Yuri Nevsky

Fire in a village stove and the snow-covered taiga outside the window

Buryat Smoke

The village of Namkhai stands amid the taiga, on the banks of the wilful Tashur River. The novel begins with its land, its water and its distant past, which continues to live alongside its people

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2026Text edition: Baikal, 2026, No. 4

We, Children of the Galaxy

We, Children of the Galaxy

What if Ulan-Ude grew up on the site of a starship crash? Childhood memories, power-grid diagrams, and beloved books help the narrator see his hometown as the trace of a cosmic catastrophe

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2017Text edition: Baikal, 2017, No. 4

King of the Board

King of the Board

After a day in the workshop, the narrator walks through wintry Ulan-Ude in search of a little bottle. His nocturnal odyssey unfolds in glowing little shops amid the cold and drifting snow

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2017Text edition: Baikal, 2017, No. 4

A Furious Ride

A Furious Ride

An artist rides out for supplies for an exhibition, admires the city, and loses his bicycle chain. An ordinary trip between the shop and the workshop turns out to be full of anxieties, temptations, and small victories

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2017Text edition: Baikal, 2017, No. 4

Ulan-Ude Slowpokes

Ulan-Ude Slowpokes

Two strangers help each other run across a road and get talking. Between their stories of Moscow, Gusinoozyorsk, work, and family, an unexpected closeness develops

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2017Text edition: Baikal, 2017, No. 4

In a Faraway Land

In a Faraway Land

Somewhere in a beautiful, faraway country lives the narrator’s mental double: an old house, vineyards, a beloved woman. This imagined life beckons with its ease and its freedom from everyday worries

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2017Text edition: Baikal, 2017, No. 4

The empty auditorium of a Palace of Culture and a worker up near the ceiling among the spotlights

Wild Songs of My People

An appeal to walk more becomes an occasion to remember the roads, people and habits of one’s country. Observations and digressions come together in a conversation about a life that is hard to measure in useful advice

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2014Text edition: Baikal, 2014, No. 5–6

Vladimir Nikolayevich

Vladimir Nikolayevich

The artist Vladimir Nikolayevich paints Baikal, where he has never been, from a friend’s stories and photographs. Generous strokes, an enormous fish, and recognising yourself on someone else’s canvas

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2009Text edition: Baikal, 2009, No. 2

How’s It Going, Dude?

How’s It Going, Dude?

On the road to Monakhovo, a weary traveler finds an abandoned grave. Amid the forest and the hum of mosquitoes, a chance stop sets him thinking about the man who remained here forever

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2009Text edition: Baikal, 2009, No. 2

There Is Only the Forest

There Is Only the Forest

On the commuter train, the narrator notices passengers who board at the same platform. Watching these strangers gradually breaks the monotony of his journey to work

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 2008Text edition: Baikal, 2009, No. 2

A man in a worn jacket at a worktable, in the cold light of a window and the warm light of a lamp

In the Gatehouse, in the Park, in the Black Safe…

On the Khuramchir Plateau, the crew of an enormous tractor is laying a road, while a young artist paints sunsets and befriends a captain from another era. Through music, dreams and strange encounters, memories return to him of a world that has vanished

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 1991Редакция: «Вдова колдуна», 1991, с. 444–460

Hands holding a dark pouch beside a campfire in the forest

The Secret of Painting with Ancient Colours

Every spring, the narrator’s wife seems to slip out of life. To bring her back, he travels to his grandmother in the northern forests—for ancient colours and knowledge that cannot be learned from books

Yuri NevskyFirst published: 1990Редакция: «Время покупать черные перстни», 1990, с. 247–254

Time to buy black rings

Time to buy black rings

“In the endless winter, the bracelets wrapped around the wrists…” Beyond the Barguzinsky tract, time froze in “zero transportation.” Confession of a watchman of an abandoned dacha, where reality disintegrates along the lines of Malevich, and only the warmth of freshly chopped firewood can save

Yuri NevskyMarch 26, 2026

Vladimir Alexandrovich Nevsky

Preface to Measuring the Wide World on Foot

Yuri Nevsky on his father Vladimir, the making of his book and the preservation of Buryatia’s hiking heritage

Yuri Nevsky Vladimir NevskyJanuary 3, 2020

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