A memoir from the oldest director of Chelyabinsk TV is far from being only a story about the formation and development of regional television, or only about a profession. It is a vivid, ironic, and touching account of life as it was half a century ago—and as it remains today. Softly flavored with the author’s humor and enriched by lived experience, it consists of short stories from the past, whose characters are both our contemporaries and the author’s contemporaries—well-known people and those less known.
Among the heroes of this book are Mstislav Rostropovich and Emil Gilels, Aleksandr Shirvindt and Valery Yarusin, Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeny Matveyev, Boris Shtokolov and Yevgeny Yevstigneev… But not only they. Reader, you are presented with an entire layer of the past—living pages of our era.