Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, whom Frayerman met in Novosibirsk, invited him to the newly formed Sibirskiye Ogni (Lights of Siberia) magazine, where his first short novel Ognyovka was published in 1924, followed by Na Mysu (At the Cape, 1925), Sobolya (Sables, 1926) and a large poem Na Rassvete (At the Dawn, 1926).
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In 1916 he enrolled into the Kharkov Technological Institute.
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Frayerman joined the Red partizan unit fighting Japanese troops nearby Nikolayevsk, then as a komissar travelled through Siberia, helping to maintain the Bolshevik rule in regions inhabited by Tungus, Nivkh and Nanay people.