The book “On the Way to the Stars” is a collection of stories, first of all, about people who connected their lives with military service, about their relationships with each other, as well as about the life situations in which they find themselves. The author, in his characteristic manner, with humor and simplicity, with unconditional love and respect for his profession, speaks about serious things, about good and evil, loyalty and betrayal. The reader is offered an unusual look at the life of such a multifaceted and complex organism as the Armed Forces - a view from the inside. The book openly, without retouching or embellishment, talks about the behind-the-scenes problems that officers, their wives and children face every day, and which were previously not customary to talk about, it describes facts, the truth about which will not leave the reader indifferent, is capable of changing ideas and views on events that took place at the end of the twentieth century... This is an artistic and biographical work, all the names of the characters in the story, the events that happen to them are fictitious, the coincidences are random...