Career
In 1931, he started to work as a journalist. He covered the murder of Pavlik Morozov, and he was one who created the myth about him. In 1933, Gubarev wrote One from eleven, about the same character, a work later rewritten into the novel Pavlik Morozov and a play.
As a fiction writer, his masterpiece was the fairy-tale novel Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, written in 1951 and made into a play a year later and into a film, Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, in 1963.