An exciting historical detective story by winner of the Russian Detective Prize Nikolai Svechin. The action of Nikolai Svechin's novel "Ural Echo" takes place in the summer of 1913: in St. Petersburg, a detective inspector of the criminal police has gone missing. The body has not been found, but it is evident that he was killed by criminals. Suspicion falls on a prominent metropolitan criminal authority nicknamed Count Platov. The search for the murderer has hit a dead end, but during their investigation, they managed to uncover platinum stolen from the Ural mines. Terrorists from the gang of Ural militant Lbov have dug up a treasure of the ataman and are preparing to use this money to assassinate the tsar! Lykov and his assistant Azvestopulo urgently traveled to the Ural capital of Yekaterinburg, where they managed to uncover a scheme for the theft of precious metals, arrest Platov, and crush the local Social Revolutionaries. But they had no idea that they would themselves become entangled in a criminal vortex…
