Roads of Life

Aleksei Grigorievich Sukharev is a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, a professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University. For 25 of his 75 years, he lived in the United States. He is a patriot of Russia; he knows and loves many Americans and doesn’t lose hope for a better future in relations between our countries. The author went through life along roads that, it seemed, were very far from each other and could not intersect. • On the first road—“mathematics”—he wrote books, one of which became a classic university textbook. • On the second—“business”—he managed to build a successful company in the field of information technologies and earned from the newspaper “The New York Times” the title of godfather of Russian outsourcing. • On the third—“to the beginnings”—he managed to find the names and family composition of eleven generations of his ancestors, created a foundation named after his grandfather Ilya Popov, a Cossack priest who was shot in 1937. The main thing, in the author’s view, is that all three roads of his life were meant for him, and that finding “your road” is something everyone can do. The memoirs of A. G. Sukharev are written in a lively language, with a tone unique to him. They’re easy to read, even though the genealogical findings and other factual material are thoroughly documented. More than 400 illustrations that adorn the book are an organic supplement to the text. “Roads of Life” will be of interest to young people who are still only facing the choice of their path, as well as to veterans.