Echelon to Samarkand is a travel novel and a kind of 'red eastern'. 1923 year. Echelon chief Deev and commissar Belaya evacuate five hundred street children from Kazan to Samarkand. A series of exciting and scary adventures along the way, vast geography - from the forests of the Volga region and the Kazakh steppes to the Kyzyl-Kum deserts and the mountains of Turkestan, a palette of destinies and characters: refugee peasants, security officers, Cossacks, the eccentric world of little vagrants with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes.