In the spring of 1920, Buzko was an employee of the Odessa Provincial Cheka, whose task was to find the den of the forest chieftain Zabolotny, who had terrorized the population of two counties for three years, and forced him to surrender voluntarily, or to lure him into a trap and capture him by force. The task was not only successfully completed, but also formed the basis of his first autobiographical novel "The Forest Beast" (1923).—kino-teatr.ru