This audiobook is about how to build Russia’s future based on its glorious past, taking into account the mistakes of the present. The author is Andrey Nikolaevich Kochergin (born 1964), Russian, Orthodox, a candidate of pedagogical sciences (in the field of combat training), a career officer, a multiple-time champion and record holder of the Leningrad Military District for shooting with standard weapons. Founder of modern knife fighting in Russia. Instructor in combat training for special units (Russia, Mexico, Latvia, Austria). A provider of programs for anti-crisis management, corporate ideology, and construction (the latest position: Deputy General Director of ZapSibGazprom for Financial Monitoring and Personnel Policy), one of Russia’s leading specialists in negotiation processes in crisis situations, writer, public figure, author of bestsellers “A Man with an Axe,” “How Steel Was Tempered — 2 and 1/2,” “Introduction to Combat Karate,” “Knife.” President of the International Union of Combat Karate Koi no taikinobri ryu (IUKKK) 8th dan.