The article examines the genre originality of the book “A Trip to the Urals” by E. G. Polonskaya, written as a result of the writer’s business trip to Sverdlovsk and the Ural Region, while working as a reporter for Leningradskaya Pravda in 1926. “A trip to the Urals”, which fi rst came into the focus of close research attention, is perceived a journalistic text created in the era of Soviet construction, reconstruction of factories and cities. EG Polonskaya succeeds in capturing not just the restoration of production after the Civil War, but proceeding to fi xing “our achievements”; the scale of her vision in many ways anticipated a new era - industrialization. The article concludes that in terms of genre, the book continued the traditions of travel literature and became the Soviet version of the travel guide, consisting of a compilation of travel notes, a feuilleton and production essays.