Kuvaev, Oleg Mikhailovich

Born on August 12, 1934 at the Ponazyrevo railway station (now Kostroma region ). Childhood and youth passed in Svechinsky district of the Kirov region , he graduated from school in Kotelnich ^[1] .

Father, Mikhail Nikolaevich Kuvaev, was born in 1891 in the village of Medveditsa of the Odoyevsky-Spirinsky volost of the Vetluzh district of the Kostroma province . During the First World War he served as a telegraph operator. He worked as an economist in the traffic service of the Ponazyrevo station, was arrested on April 16, 1938 on charges of anti-Soviet activity, the case was dismissed on January 20, 1939 . Mother, Kuvaeva (nee Ivakin) Pavel Vasilievna, was a primary school teacher. In the fall of 1939 the family moved to Svechinsky district , the village of Ivakiny. The family lived in the Ivakins for a little over a year, and in the late autumn of 1941 moved to the village of Kuzmenki, where an elementary school was opened and where Pavel Vasilyevna was transferred. In the first two years of the war, his father worked at one of the railway stations of the Kotelnichsky district , and in the autumn of 1944 he was transferred closer to his family, to the junction of Yuma of the Svechinsky district, where the whole family immediately moved.

In the summer of 1952, Kuvaev entered the Geophysical Department of the Moscow Polytechnic Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze , who graduated in 1958 . During the years of study at the institute, he visited expeditions to the Tien Shan , in Kyrgyzstan , in the upper reaches of the Amur . In 1956, during the expedition to the Tien Shan, the first story “For Capricorns” was written, published in the journal “Hunting and Hunting” (No. 3). In 1957, as a graduate student, Kuvaev came to Chukotka , the expedition worked in the areas of Providence Bay, Transfiguration Bay, Cross Bay .

After defending his diploma in 1958, Oleg achieved distribution to Chukotka and for 3 years he worked as the party leader of the Chaun geological department in the village of Pevek , on the shore of Chaun Bay . In Pevek, Kuvaev received his first literary experience in the literary association at the local newspaper Polyarnaya Zvezda. The almanac "In the far north" published the stories of Oleg "St. John's Wort" and "Gerneugin, who does not like noise."

In 1960, Oleg was transferred to Magadan to the North-East Geological Department, to the post of senior engineer of the geophysical control unit. Five months later, he became a senior specialist in gravimetry of the geophysical department of Nizhny Novgorod State University. In October 1961, O. Kuvaev realized that in spite of his success, “... he was not fit for a leadership position in the Nizhny Novgorod State University, and he unexpectedly left for Moscow” ^[2] , on vacation, followed by his dismissal. And yet, it was then that a clear understanding came to him that “the main thing is the work, or rather, the degree of its interest. All the rest are related phenomena ” ^[2] . At this time, the Northeast Integrated Research Institute was organized in Magadan, and Kuvaev was invited there. He led a group conducting geophysical exploration on Wrangel Island, on the drifting ice of the Chukchi and East Siberian Sea. “Classes in literature,” he later wrote about this period of his life, “became something of a second profession ... the need to write took away more and more power” ^[2] .

Disappointed in the profession, in the late 1960s, Kuvaev left geophysics and geology and became a professional writer. In his 1968 autobiography , he wrote about it like this: “... all my life experience is still connected with geology. Geology is now a science and production, it is increasingly becoming a clear industrial complex and will continue to develop along this path. The far-fetched stories about ... "akhs" over the field ... often sound insulting to geology. Everything happens because of everyday necessity, but this cannot be elevated to the rank of a purely typical one. And this is precisely what I see in the near future as my duty as a writer, as it is a duty to comrades in the profession with whom we had to work, rejoice, take risks and just live ” ^[2] . Kuvaev leaves the North, settles in the suburbs. In his works, he tries to truthfully convey the spirit and lifestyle of the people of the North of the late 1940s - early 1960s. This stage of the writer’s life was reflected in the unfinished novel “Rules of Flight” (published posthumously in 1980 with some abbreviations, fully in 1988 ).

The publication of his first works in the early 1960s coincides in time with the growing interest of Soviet youth in tourism, in the romance of long-distance travel. The geological exotics of Kuvaev texts also attracts the attention of filmmakers. At the Belarusfilm film studio, the first of his works is filmed - the story “The Coast of Princess Luska ” (1969). In Kuvaev’s own words, the film brought him all-Union fame, although the author of the story himself considered the film adaptation frankly weak.

After leaving geology and leaving the Northeast, Oleg Kuvaev undertook several extremely difficult independent routes in Chukotka, including in search of the legendary giant brown bear Kainyn-Khutkho ^[3] and the “mountain of native silver” Pilahuerti Neuk ( Silver Mountain ) ^[4] (both mythological objects are present in the traditions of the Evens , Chukchi, Yukagirs and Koryak). Some routes, including to the Pamir , were carried out with the support of the magazine Around the World . Kuvaev described this experience in his documentary-geographical works ( see the section “Documentary prose” ^[5] ).

In 1966 - 1975 he lived in Kaliningrad (now Korolev ) in the Moscow Region at the address: Dzerzhinsky, d. 20 (a memorial plaque is installed on the house).

He died of a heart attack on April 8, 1975 in Pereslavl-Zalessky ( Yaroslavl region ). He was buried in Korolyov in the old Bolshevsky cemetery.

Oleg Kuvaev’s prose is distinguished by a rare sincerity of narration, harmony, subtle observation and accuracy in the description of human characters, completeness of images, faith in a person. A characteristic feature of his work can also be called deep respect for the indigenous inhabitants of the North, their experience of survival and adaptation to the natural conditions of the Arctic. Oleg Kuvaev, as a screenwriter and consultant, participated in the creation of a number of documentaries dedicated to the life of the indigenous peoples of the North ^[6] .

Kuvaev worked a lot on his own style - this is noticeable when comparing earlier works and later ones. Returned to what was not given. Moreover, initially he had a rare and strong talent, the development of which was facilitated by the abundance of material and the desire to convey this material to others. At the same time, he had a rare gift - describing real events not to slide into everyday life, but to create a story, creatively rethink reality, revive it in the space of an artistic text so that it fits there as fully and reliably as possible. For this you need a subtle author’s instinct - and a brilliant command of the language ^[7] .

The highest success of Oleg Kuvaev’s work is considered to be his novel Territory , which tells about the successful discovery of gold in Chukotka in the late 1940s and early 1950s ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} . Since 1975, the novel has been published in more than 30 editions, including in Roman-Gazeta in three million (two times 1.5 million) print runs. It was published also abroad: in French, German, Spanish, Arabic, English, Vietnamese and Polish. The book was translated in the republics of the USSR, and in Europe the novel was published in 17 publishing houses. It was filmed by director Alexander Surin in 1978 at the Mosfilm studio (at the box office since 1979), the film was purchased by Soyuzfilmeksport for showing in socialist countries.

The success of the film in the German Democratic Republic is largely due to the popularity of the German translation of the novel, published almost 10 times in Germany under the name "Gold Miners" ("Gold Miners in the Arctic", "Gold Miners in Siberia").

The most difficult is considered the last, unfinished novel by Oleg Kuvaev, named after the posthumous publication of " Flight Rules ". Considering the complex problems of changing internal self-identification, the ethical issues that arise when a person flees, which applies to a wide range of situations - from fleeing from a profession or society to forced or voluntary emigration - from an environment where he can no longer stay, the author makes a lot of use his personal experience of leaving geology and the North in 1965-1966 (“Running away - you betray”). The story “Someone must gurgle” and the story “To you and immediately back” are also devoted to similar problems.

Other, much more dominant themes raised in the novel are collectivization in Chukotka, which took place only in the 1960s, which took on very peculiar forms there due to the type of social structure of the Chukchi - see, for example, Yuri Rytkheu ’s novel “ A Dream at the Beginning of the Fog ” , - and the topic of the need for trust in people, even those at the bottom of the social ladder - for example, to “ scourges ”. The last topic is also the main one in the stories “Anyutka, Khysh, the ferocious Makaveev”, “Three hundred years after the rainbow” ^[12] and the novel “Spring Hunting for Geese”.

The novel “ The Bird of Captain Ross ” (1968), deeply revised in 1971-1973, was also widely known. simultaneously with the creation of a script for its adaptation (two-part television film " Going Beyond the Horizon ", directed by Nikolai Kalinin , 1972). The revised version was called " Triple Polar Story " and is, in fact, a detailed literary script of the film.

The story is devoted to the problems of a person searching for his purpose in life, gaining the ability and will to “live according to a dream”. It tells the story of the search for the habitat of the legendary pink seagull by a young man who is rapidly losing his sight as a result of a ski injury, which led to the complete collapse of his sports career. In the text of the story, the hero sings the song of Alexander Gorodnitsky "Pirate" (1962) ^[13] . And in his other works, Oleg Kuvaev repeatedly quoted the lines of Gorodnitsky, well known to him, who had worked for many years in geophysical expeditions in the Arctic, so when preparing the three-volume collected works of Kuvaev in the publishing house “Fiction” in 2005, the publishers really wanted Alexander Moiseevich to write the foreword to the three-volume ^[14] , but for a number of reasons this idea was not implemented.

The experience of Oleg Kuvaev’s single routes, survival in an uninhabited area, described by him in his works, is actively used in modern extreme tourism ^{[15] [16]} .

• One of the streets of Pevek city ​​was named after Oleg Kuvaev, Kuvaev street is the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Oleg Kuvaev lived in Pevek, worked in the Chaunsky Raion. Pevek became the prototype of the "Village" in the "Territory".
• Oleg Kuvaev named the ski club MGRI (now RGGRU), located near the Yakhroma station.
• The house-museum (created by Oleg Kuvaev’s nephew) is located at the address: Korolev , 31 Bolshevskoye Shosse.
• The name of Oleg Kuvaev is the youth library of the city of Korolev (50 years of the Komsomol, 5/16); Central City Library of Magadan (Novaya St. 29 "B").
• The only writer to whom gold prospectors erected a bronze monument, using personal savings.
• In 1984, a memorial plaque was erected at the Yuma school at the Yuma station in the Kirov Region, a writer’s museum was opened, and the literary club “Pink Seagull” works. In August, Kuvaevsky days are held annually in the region.

• In March 2005, by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation “in memory of the geologist and writer O. M. Kuvaev and based on the presentation of the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug”, the name of Oleg Kuvaev was assigned to the nameless mountain peak of the Chukotka Upland with coordinates 69 ° 40.3'N, 172 ° 07.7 'East longitude and an absolute height of 1101 meters ^{[17] [18] [19]} .
• Kuvaev pass 1 (2A, 2350 m, 15.4)

Located in the southern part of the Buardakhsky massif of the Chersky ridge . The massif is located on the watershed of the Buordakh River and the rivers flowing in Tirechty - Satostobut, Balaganny, Egely, Kureter, Chachygyras, Talbygyr. All of them belong to the Moma basin. Only one Lunkide River deeply penetrates the massif. “Its majestic alpine crest, sparkling in places with snow and glaciers, seems even harsher against the backdrop of the soft relief of the Momo-Selennyakh depression bordering it from the north,” wrote A.P. Vaskovsky, who proposed creating a protected area here. Now on the basis of the Buordakhsky mountain massif a national park has been organized.

• Kuvaev Pass 2 - on the west coast of about. Wrangel , in the metro area Zanes .
• Kuvaev Pass 3 - 1800 m, 1B, Ergaki Range. Aradan ridge (Aradan ridge - one of the extensions of the left bank of the Yenisei Sayan ridge, on the one hand, and on the other - the Ergaki ridge).
• Kuvaev 4 pass - the upper reaches of the Middle Sakukan, Kodar Range, Transbaikalia. 1B-2A.
• Kuvaev Pass 5/6 - The Republic of Buryatia, the Stanovoye Highlands, the South Mui and Muyakansky ranges:

• the pass of Oleg Kuvaev Yuzhny (2B, 2100),
• the pass of Oleg Kuvaev Severny . South Mui Range, per. Kuvaeva (2150 m, west), the massif of the city of Kart (2661 m).

• Prize named after the Magadan Komsomol (1976) - for the novel " Territory "
• Prize of the competition of the All - Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the Secretariat of the Board of the Joint Venture of the USSR (1977) for the best work of fiction about the modern working class for 1974-1976 in the novel Territory
• Grand Prix of the Paris International Film Festival “For the best embodiment of the image of a romantic hero” in the television movie Going Beyond the Horizon (1973)
• prize of the USSR border troops at the 15th All-Union Film Festival (1982; Tallinn ) - for the film "Throw"

Stories and Essays

• 3a Capricorn ^[20]
• On the earth, Chauch and cavalins (from the notebook of a geologist) / Mikhailov O. [pseudonym O. Kuvaev] ^[21]
• Hypericum ^[22]
• “Gerneugin, who does not like noise,” the first publication entitled “The owner of the tundra” ^{[22] [23]}
• Leshka from the Onkilon tribe / Mikhailov O. [pseudonym O. Kuvaev] ^[24]
• Fourth frame / Mikhailov O. [pseudonym O. Kuvaeva] ^[25]
• Trip to the Tundra ^[26]
• In a country of leisurely people ^[27]
• Two shots in September, at the first publication of Uncle Yakim ^[28]
• Three hundred years after the rainbow
• Annie, Khysh, ferocious Makaveev
• “A little bit sad story”, with early publications “That Far Island”, “A Little Sad Story”
• “Ever since old Noah swam ... (manuscript found in a bottle)” ^[29]
• Princess Luska's Shore ^[30]
• Morning old people
• Body Peripherals ^[31]
• “Someone has to grunt,” the original title is “All around the Russian people”, at the first publication “Gotta grunt” ^[32]
• Somewhere Near Greenwich
• 62 ^[33]
• BH-740, at the first publication of "Kayak Captain" ^[34]
• “Voiced keys” (silent story) ^[35]
• “Great, fat!”, At the first publication “In the forest, on the river and beyond” ^[36]
• Rushing to the disastrous heights ^[37]
• Hey Bako!
• The old-old way of the road ... ^[38]
• Pure Silver Mountain ^[39]
• If a crack - shout ^[40]
• At the junction of two oceans / Kuvaev O., Ilyinsky B. ^[41]
• “Diary of coastal navigation”, at the first publication “The strange fate of Nikita Shalaurov” ^[42]
• Walrus Hunting ^[43]
• Ski resort ^[44]

Ballads

• Ballad about the children of Ursa Major. Ballad about the stars, as well as about the tramps ^{[45] [46]}

Tale

• “That ordinary summer.” (1959) ^{[24] [47]}
• “Light the Bonfires in the Ocean” (Adventure Story) (1964) ^[47]
• “Don't Stumble Over the Arctic Circle” (1962) ^[48]
• "Eccentrics live in the East" (1965) ^[49]
• The Azov Option (1966) ^[50]
• "Spring Hunting for Geese" (1967), the first publication entitled "Where did the geese fly" ^[51]
• The Triple Polar Plot (1971–73), in its original version, Captain Ross’s Bird (1968) ^[52]
• The House for the Vagabonds (1970) ^[53]
• “The sad wanderings of Lev Bebenin,” at the first publication of “Requiem in the Morning” (1970) ^[54]
• “To you and immediately back” (1971) ^[55]

Novels

• Territory (1969-1975) ^[56] .
• Flight Rules (1975) ^[57] .

• Selected: [3 Vol.] / Oleg Kuvaev; [Ed. T. Morgunova; The artist. S. Novoselov], 21 cm,
  • t.1: Stories and novels - 1994 (Tyr. 20,000), 379 s, ISBN 5-7581-0120-6 ; Contents: Stories: Spring hunting of geese, The sad wanderings of Lev Bebenin: (Requiem in the mornings), The house for vagabonds, To you and immediately back, Do not trip over the Arctic Circle, Stories: The coast of Princess Lyuska, Since the old Noah, Anyutka, Khysh, the fierce Makaveev, A little sad story.
  • Volume 2: Novels - Magadan, Magadan. Prince Publishing House [sponsored by the Omolon Charity Fund], 1999 (Tyr. 3,000); The artist. V. Circents. Content: Territory, Flight Rules; ISBN 5-7581-0175-4
  • t.3: “I never want to put an end to it.”: Travel essays, speeches, diaries, letters. - 2001 (Tyr. 1,000), Magadan, Magadan. Prince Publishing House [sponsored by the Omolon Charitable Foundation with the support of Ilya Rosenblum], ISBN is unknown ^[58] .
• Oleg Kuvaev. Works: [3 Vol.] Moscow: Fiction, 2005 [comp. S. G. Kolesnikov, S. A. Grin, G. M. Kuvaev, ill. I. E. Gritsenko], printed at the printing house Printing House - Vyatka, Kirov, shooting gallery. 1000 copies Published with financial support from the Government of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. ISBN 5-280-03360-X
  • t.1. — Москва: Худож. лит., 2005. Повести. 509 с, портр., илл. В сборник включены десять повестей, написанных в разные годы, и автобиографический очерк «О себе». Содерж.: Весенняя охота на гусей, Чудаки живут на востоке, Зажгите костры в океане, Не споткнись о Полярный круг, Дневник прибрежного плавания, Азовский вариант, Печальные странствия Льва Бебенина, Дом для бродяг, К вам и сразу обратно, Тройной полярный сюжет. ISBN 5-280-03357-X
  • т.2. — Москва: Худож. лит., 2005. Романы. Stories. 573 с, портр., илл. Содерж.: романы: Территория, Правила бегства, рассказы: За козерогами, Гернеугин, не любящий шума, Берег принцессы Люськи, С тех пор, как плавал старый Ной, Анютка, Хыш, свирепый Макавеев, Где-то возле Гринвича, Чуть-чуть невеселый рассказ, ВН-740, <…>. ISBN 5-280-03358-8
  • т.3. — Москва: Худож. лит., 2005. 1. Вместо предисловия, или Частное отступление на тему этимологии. 2. Два цвета земли меж двух океанов (дорожные записки и размышления). 3. Обнажая душу. Книга писем. 576 с, портр., илл. ISBN 5-280-03359-6
• Олег Куваев. Сочинения: [В 3 т.] Москва: Издательство Престиж Бук, 2013 [сост. С. Г. Колесников, С. А. Гринь, Г. М. Куваева, ил. И. Е. Гриценко], отпечатано в типографии ПИК «Идеал-Пресс» (филиал ОАО «Татмедиа»), Казань, тир. 3000 copies ISBN 978-5-990-4029-2-9 (ошибоч.) (комплект). ^[59]
• Избранное: В 2 т. / Олег Куваев; [Сост., коммент. Г. М. Куваевой; Foreword В. Курбатова, с. 5-22; Fig. С. Крестовского], 525,[2] с., [1] л. портр.: ил., 21 см, М. Мол. гвардия 1988, ISBN 5-235-00138-9 ISBN 978-5-235-00138-1 ISBN 5-235-00137-0 ISBN 978-5-235-00137-4
• Правила бегства. / Олег Куваев; Серия: Северная проза. Вступит. статья А. Мифтахутдинова, Магаданское книжное издательство, 1981 г. 448 стр.
• Каждый день как последний. / Олег Куваев; Серия Тебе в дорогу, романтик. Tales and stories. Молодая гвардия, 1976 г. 366 стр.
• Не споткнись о Полярный Круг // Зажгите костры в океане. [расск. и повести] / Куваев Олег. Fig. Серков Л. А., Магадан, Кн. изд., 1964
• Куваев О. М. Территория. Novel. М.: «Современник», 1975. 256 с. (Первое книжное издание романа.)
• Территория. /Олег Куваев; Серия: Вертикаль (Мужская проза). Издательство «Мангазея», Новосибирск, 2005, 400 с. (иллюстратор: А. Медведев); ISBN 5-8091-0262-X . // Территория; К вам и сразу обратно; Азовский вариант
• Олег Куваев. Территория. М.: Paulsen, 2015. — 320 с., 58 илл. ISBN 978-5-98797-127-7 Наиболее совершенное в текстологическом отношении издание романа. Приурочено к выходу новой экранизации романа (2015). Открывается автобиографическим очерком очерком «О себе», дополненным фотографиями из архива писателя и фрагментами из других его произведений и писем. Завершает книгу щедро иллюстрированный рассказ о съёмках фильма на Чукотке и на плато Путорана.

• La Mouette rose [Тройной полярный сюжет] [Texte imprimé] / O(Le)g Kouvaev; [traduit par Nadine Marchand]. -Paris: Pygmalion, 1979. −188 p.; couv. ill. en coul., 22 cm. -(Col(Le)ction dersou Ouzala). ISBN 2-85704-053-9 ; last editions 1999 and 2001 — ISBN 978-2-85704-053-8
• Територія: роман та повесті Олега Куваєва (украинский). Київ: Дніпро, 1978
• Териториул: Роман / Олег Куваев; Per. с рус. А. А. Руму, Кишинев: Лит. артистикэ, 1983, 273 с.; 20 см, Б-ка соврем. owls романа, (Молд.)
• Territoorium: Romaan. Tallinn, 1977 (Estonian)
• Teritorija: Romans, Riga, 1978 (Latvian)
• Teritorija. Romanas. Vilnius, 1979 (Lithuanian)
• Территория: [Роман] / Олег Куваев; Per. Е. П. Мелех, М.-Варшава: Радуга: Искры, 1987, 389,[2] с.; 17 см, Б-ка молодых. (Пол.)
• Le Territoire [Территория] (Collection Florilège) (Reliure inconnue) de Oleg Mihajlovic Kuvaev (Auteur), Jean Champenois (Auteur) (French) Paris: Livre Club Diderot; Moscou: Éditions du Progrès, 1978. 486 p.: port.; ISBN 2-11-000069-4 ISBN 978-2-11-000069-9
• Goldsucher (Territorija, dt.) [Территория]. Roman by Oleg Kuvaev (German). (Deutsch von Ruprecht Willnow). München: Bertelsmann, 1976, ISBN 3-570-00152-0 ISBN 978-3-570-00152-3
• Auf Goldsuche in Sibirien, Roman [Территория], Kuwajew, Oleg: 1. Auflage, Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin, 332 S., (German). [1977] 1. Aufl ISBN 3-570-00152-0
• Goldsucher [Территория]: Roman by Oleg M Kuvaev (German). Russ. von Ruprecht Willnow, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1980. ISBN 3-499-14580-4 ISBN 978-3-499-14580-3
• A terület Regény (Hungarian) [Территория]. By Oleg Mihajlovic Kuvaev, András Soproni. Budapest Európa, 1978, ISBN 9630710773 , ISBN 9789630710770
• The territory [Территория]: a novel by Oleg Kuvaev (English). [translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish]. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982. 389 p. Series: Working class in Soviet literature.
• The territory by Oleg Kuvaev (English) [Территория] // Soviet literature. no. 8 (353) (1977) ISSN 02021870
• Te-Ri-To-Ri-A: Tieu Thuyet. Ha Noi, 1983 (Vietnamese)
• Argonauci Dalekiej Północy by Oleg Mihajlovič Kuvaev; Eugeniusz Piotr Melech (Polish) Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo «Iskry»; Moskwa: Raduga, Ed: 1976 (250 p.), 1987 (357 p.). ISBN 8320710472 ISBN 9788320710472
• Die Möwe Des Kapitäns Ross [Тройной полярный сюжет] / Das Muttermal, Kuwajew Oleg / Scholochow Michail Schriftstellerverband Die Frau Und Die Zwei Männer UdSSR, Moskau, 1975
• Alue / Oleg Kuvajev; (Finnish) [Территория] [suomentanut Ulla-Liisa Heino]. [Moskova]: [Raduga], [1987] Series: Maailma ja me, Novelliliite; 1987. 248 s.
• Každý den jako poslední: [výběr z próz] / Oleg Kuvajev (Czech); z ruš. přel. a medailón o autorovi naps. Jaroslav Šanda; il. Jiří Altmann. Praha: Práce, 1983, 267 s. Series Kamarád
• Ružová čajka [Тройной полярный сюжет] / Oleg Michajlovič Kuvajev (Czech); Prel. Johana Hasonová. Bratislava: Smena, 1979. 203 s. Series Štafeta
• Teritorium [Территория] / Oleg Kuvajev (Czech); z ruš. přel. Jan Zábrana; obálka, vazba a graf. úprava Oldřich Pošmurný. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 3 ed: 1976; 1978; 1987. 286 s. Series Nový svět.
• Teritórium [Территория] / Oleg Michajlovič Kuvajev (Slovak); Prel. Mária Hulmanová. Bratislava: Slov. spis., 1978. 308 s. Series Nová sovietska tvorba.
• Територията [Территория] / Олег Куваев (Български). София, 1978.
• Los Buscadores de Oro [Территория]. Kuvaev, Oleg. Novela. (Spain) 1h., colofón, ilustr. 21x13, Editorial Progreso., Moscú, 1979. 322 pag.
• Территория: [Роман] / Олег Куваев. (Араб.) — М.: Прогресс, 1981. — 536 с.: староараб. pag .; 18 cm
• Pakenemisen säännöt: romaani / Oleg Kuvajev; (Finnish) suom. Riitta Lehikoinen. [Правила бегства] Hämeenlinna: Karisto, 1984. Series: Neuvostokirjallisuutta ISBN 9512320401 ISBN 9789512320400
• Pravidlá úteku / Oleg Michajlovič Kuvajev (Slovak) [Правила бегства]; Prel. a doslov napís. Alexandra Šufliarska. Bratislava: Obzor, 1986. 173 s. Series Jantar
• Zákony útěku / Oleg Michajlovič Kuvajev (Czech) [Правила бегства];; Jaroslav Šanda; Pavel Ritstein. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1984. 151 s.
• Правилата на бягството. Collection. / Олег Куваев (Български). София, 1986

• Иванов В. В. Куваевская романистика: Романы О. Куваева «Территория» и «Правила бегства»: История создания, духовное и художественное своеобразие: Опыт исслед. Магадан, Кордис, 2001. 148, [2] с., [8] л. ill .; 21 см, ISBN 5-89678-027-3 ISBN 978-5-89678-027-4
• Шагалов, Александр Александрович, Олег Куваев Жизнь, кн., мечты. [Entry. Art. В. В. Смирнова] Магадан Кн. изд-во 1989, 190,[2] с. 17 см, Серия Писатели Сов. России, ISBN 5-7581-0033-1 ; М.: Сов. Россия, 1984.
• Kurbatov, Vladimir Sergeyevich , “You can’t erase it from memory ... (Behind the lines of letters and books of Oleg Kuvaev)”. Magadan, 2000.
• Livshits, Semyon , Oleg Kuvaev and the fierce Inquisition // literary and artistic almanac "In the Far North", No. 1, 2002
• Grin S.A. Stone of fidelity // Vyatka: Mosk.-Vyat. literary artist, local historian. J.- 1996.- No. 1.- S. 69-83.
• Epanchintsev Roman Vyacheslavovich “Unknown” stories by Oleg Kuvaev // Modern Science: Actual Problems of Theory and Practice. Series - Humanities. - 2011- No. 4. - P.72-74.
• Epanchintsev Roman Vyacheslavovich Opposition “city / village” in the small prose of Oleg Kuvaev // World Literature in the Context of Culture: Collection of scientific papers based on the results of the XXII Purishev readings. - M.: MPGU, 2010. - S. 148-151
• Epanchintsev Roman Vyacheslavovich Mythologization of the northern nature in the prose of O. Kuvaev // Russian Speech. - 2008. - No. 3. - S. 31-34.
• Epanchintsev Roman Vyacheslavovich Models of the organization of the character system in the stories and stories of O. Kuvaev // Bulletin of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen. - No. 24 (55): Graduate notebooks: Scientific journal. - St. Petersburg, 2008. - S. 110-113
• Epanchintsev Roman Vyacheslavovich Ethical and aesthetic views of the writer Oleg Kuvaev // Bulletin of the North-East State University. - Issue 10. - Magadan: Publishing House of Nizhny Novgorod State University, 2008. - S. 33-37.

• Territory , 2015, the film company "St. Andrew's Flag" - based on the novel of the same name. Director: Alexander Melnik . Cast: Konstantin Lavronenko , Grigory Dobrygin , Egor Beroev , Evgeny Tsyganov , Ksenia Kutepova and others.
• Cast , 1981, Tajikfilm - based on the story “The Body Peripherals” written after a business trip from the magazine Around the World to the Eastern Pamirs . Director A. Turaev, screenwriter O. Kuvaev. Starring Alexander Filippenko. Prize of the USSR border troops at the 15th All-Union Film Festival in Tallinn in 1982. The shooting took place in the area of ​​the border posts of Rangkul and Tokhtamysh ^[60] .
• Territory , 1978, Mosfilm - based on the novel of the same name. Director Alexander Surin, screenwriter Oleg Kuvaev. The film starred Donatas Banionis, Vladimir Letenkov, Evgeny Gerasimov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Nikolai Zasukhin and other remarkable actors.
• Going Beyond the Horizon , 1972, Beltelefilm commissioned by the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Agency - based on the novel “The Triple Polar Plot”. Director Nikolai Kalinin , screenwriter Oleg Kuvaev. Starring Ivan Gavrilyuk. Grand Prix of the International Television Film Festival in Paris (1973) "For the best embodiment of the image of a romantic hero."
• The coast of Princess Lyuska , 1969, Belarusfilm - according to the story of the same name. Director Vyacheslav Nikiforov , production designer Vladimir Chernyshev , screenwriter Oleg Kuvaev. Luska starred in the role of Svetlana Smekhnova-Blagojevich . The premiere took place on June 11, 1970 at the 1st program of the DH. The last time the film was shown on St. Petersburg's “5th Channel” on June 24, 1993. At the request of the director Vyacheslav Nikiforov, Aron Krupp wrote the song “Autumn Over the North ...”, which eventually did not enter the film (for the lyrics see: Nadya Krupp . Aron Krupp ).
• People of the Tundra and the Sea , Tsentrnauchfilm, 1969. Director D. Demin, screenwriter O. Kuvaev. About the Chukchi - people of the tundra and the sea, living in the far north-east of the country, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
• Halfway from Moscow to the Moon ^[61]

Answering the questionnaire of the Magadan television in 1973, Kuvaev wrote:

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• «Когда тревожат сны из детства…» (ноябрь 2006, поездка в город Королев) // Дом для бродяг
• Леонид Горовой . Писатель и время // Калининградская правда, 10.06.2004, No 62
• Ответы Олега Куваева на вопросы анкеты Магаданского телевидения, 1970. Опубликованы в издании: Правила бегства / Олег Куваев. — Магадан: Магаданское книжное издательство , 1981. — (Северная проза)
• Обсуждение творчества Олега Куваева, богато иллюстририванное редкими фотографиями Севера на форуме Guns.ru, раздел Выживание
• Евдокимов В. И. Олег Куваев — рассказчик последней территории
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• Олег Куваев online
• Олег Михайлович Куваев на aldebaran
• Сидоров А. , Чл.-корр. Росс. АН. Легенды о серебряной горе / Наука и жизнь
• Воспроизведение романа «Дом для бродяг» в редакции 1972 г. на сайте журнала Вокруг Света , часть 1 и часть 2
• Елаховский С. Б. Слово о Куваеве
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