This cache is a Letterbox Hybrid geocache. It is one of a series highlighting interesting individuals from a variety of fields who once lived behind the featured letterboxes. Many thanks to tundra70 for allowing me to contribute to this new series.
The final cache is not at the published co-ordinates but you will need to visit them to get some information that will help in taking you to the final location.
Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in 1884, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest but as a student marine engineer in St Petersburg he lost his Christian faith and became a Bolshevik supporting Lenin and the overthrow of the Romanovs, the Russian royal family. In March 1916 he was sent to England by the Russian government to supervise the building of several icebreakers at Armstrong Whitworth at Walker and Swan Hunter at Wallsend. These ships included the Sviatogor, later renamed the Krassin, which became famous in 1928 when it rescued the Italian explorer Umerto Nobile's airship expedition to the North Pole. The story was later made into the film The Red Tent which starred Peter Finch and Sean Connery.
But Zamayatin was no ordinary marine engineer and it was during his time on Tyneside, when he lived at 19 Sanderson Road, Jesmond, that he wrote two novellas, Islanders and A Fisher of Men. In his book, The Islanders, he satirised, as he saw it, the British desire for conformity and efficency. His "Rev. Dewley, vicar of St Enoch's" is clearly St George's, Jesmond. A Fisher of Men is set in London but has obvious allusions to Newcastle.
In 1917 he returned to St Petersburgh where he became a major, albeit controversial, figure in the Russian literary world. His most famous novel, We, was written during the 1920s and was banned in Russia and Zamyatin had to smuggle it to the west where it was published in 1924. It was an anti-utopian novel which preceded Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and is said to have inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). In Russia it was considered to be a "malicious slander on socialism" and wasn't published in the Soviet Union until 1988.
Zamyatin was eventually allowed to leave Russia and he emigrated to Paris in 1931 where he died in poverty from a heart attack in 1937. He was buried in the Cimetière de Thiasis in Paris.
To calculate the final co-ordinates:
From the posted co-ordinates, walk in a roughly northerly direction up the street for about 110 paces which should bring you to a street light with a vertical string of numbers and a letter USVW. Ignore the letter and note the numbers. Now, continue to walk up to the corner at the top of the street. On the opposite corner is a post box which is numbered NE2 XYZD. Ignore NE2 and D but note the other three numbers.
Checksum for U to Z = 24
The cache is to be found at: N54 59.(Z-X)(V-Y)(V-Z) W001 36.(V-U)(Z-X)(U+W)
Please be aware that the final cache location is very busy so please use stealth and consideration.
The cache does contain a small stamp which isn't a trade item. Please leave in the cache.