"History" by G. A. Kalinyak is a real encyclopedia of the life of an ordinary Soviet person. The notes of a worker at the Leningrad Elektrosila plant cover almost the entire period of the existence of the USSR: from the Civil War to Gorbachev's perestroika. The fate of Georgy Aleksandrovich Kalinyak was very difficult: from his youth, she threw him from end to end of a power shaken up by the revolution; he starved, wandered, worked for the Nepman, until he finally took his rightful place in the ranks of the working class of the plant, to which he remained faithful all his life. In the ranks of first the 3rd People's Militia Division, and then the 63rd Guards Rifle Division, he went through the war almost from the very first to the last day: he survived the blockade, fought on the Nevsky patch, was wounded four times. The memoirs of G. A. Kalinyak are an honest story about the people who made up the flesh and blood of the country of the Soviets, who were participants in the joyful and tragic events of its history, labors and exploits that laid the foundation for the life and well-being of the current and future generations of citizens of our country. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers.