From memories of tick expeditions

The work of tick expeditions in 1937-1939 directly in the focus of infection spread was conducted under extremely difficult conditions. Moscow researchers were prepared to work in far from ideal laboratory conditions.

Scientists had to work for 12 or more hours every day. From the memoirs of Lev Alexandrovich Zilber, the head of the first expedition:

...I could not keep my staff from this hard work: they all worked with exceptional passion and genuine enthusiasm

According to the memoirs of Elizaveta Nikolaevna Levkovich, leader of the northern detachment 1937-1939:

For the delivery of experimental animals and equipment, it was necessary to cross the roadless taiga untouched by man. To accommodate the virology and parasitology laboratories, the vivarium and the clinic for sick people, a scientific town was created in a very short time and the carriages intended for lumberjacks' housing were used. The hospital received seriously ill and past taiga inhabitants with residual paralysis

In the story "The First Battle. The story of virologists" Alexander Sharov describes the village of Obor:

The Oborsky lespromkhoz appeared in the evening: clearings flooded with water, log cabins on skids - small, uncomfortable, reminding with all their appearance that they were temporary tenants here, the wall of the forest, "whiskers" - railroad branches; the rails were lying directly on the ground. The haphazardly scattered huts were like soldiers on a short halt, sleeping wherever they could under their wet overcoats. Unreliable wooden bridges stretched between the houses. In the distance behind the village, the river opened up in a blue streak

However, as the author of the historical story notes, the unsettled life was more than compensated by the beauty of nature. According to Alexander Sharov, many participants of the expedition fell in love with the Far Eastern nature at first sight and for the rest of their lives.

Disease occupies but a corner of the beautiful and mighty that overflows all around. Banish it, and a wild but almost perfect beauty reigns.