Zeleny Dol is a small remote village on the banks of the quiet Siberian river Svetlikha. But it is in these God-forsaken places that the turbulent events of the novel take place. The epic "Shadows Disappear at Noon" covers a huge period in the history of Russia: the years of the Civil War, collectivization, the harsh war years of 1941-1945, the post-war restoration of the national economy.