In the book about fellow students - group AP-4 MAI, class of 1957. About a friend - Boris Filin, who worked at Baikonur and participated in the launch of Gagarin. This book is filled with sadness and mysticism. It tells about cemeteries, tombstones and epitaphs - strangers and our own. Further - as usual: about the life of a young family, a stale fur coat, numerous letters and new friends. There was no Internet or email; we communicated by handwritten letters. The section about Victor’s Work talks about overcoming difficulties at the stage of organizing the laboratory and about how he quit playing preference once and for all...