The experiment didn’t go according to plan. A brilliant scientist—a professor of physical and technical sciences and technologies—ends up in the past. He comes to himself in his own body, and it is 1986. The Soviet Union hasn’t fallen yet. The dry law and a shortage of goods are gaining force. In near-Earth space, the Soviet orbital station Mir is in operation. The liquidation of an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is underway. The last general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee stands at the helm of the state. Rostov the butcher and Fisher haven’t been caught yet. Is everything starting over again? Can this life be fixed? Knowing what will happen, can you change it?
He will have to live through what has already happened: perestroika, school, friends, betrayal, first love, student life, the army, and adulthood. But later. Right now he’s too young. The school reform was a couple of years ago, the hero is six, and he is going into first grade. And what about the voice in his head? Is it possible to prevent the collapse of the USSR? And won’t knowing about the coming events tempt him to use that knowledge for his own good?