“In his memoirs, Lenin Prize laureate Academician Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin, who went from a street child to a world-famous scientist, talks about a very interesting science - about genetics, to which he devoted his entire life. The author talks about many remarkable Soviet scientists with whom he had to work together, and about events related to the solution of a number of fundamental problems of science and practice, about the struggle for genetics, to the development of which he himself made a great contribution. Now N.P. Dubinin is the director of the Institute of General Genetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His book is a story about the life path of not only a scientist, but also a public figure.”