To prevent the Catastrophe, he had to risk everything and go back in time from 2026. He knew that travel was possible only at key moments of a person’s past life. It just so happened that he was thrown into himself—a 17-year-old—during a military oath ceremony. Now there’s no way for him to avoid cadet life in the year ’96. Voluntary captivity in an era of total chaos. Yeltsin has just gone for his second term. The shameful Khasavyurt will be signed any moment now. But none of this cancels the task in front of him: to change his own life, save friends and loved ones, and in the end, change history.