The first part of the book “Vovka’s Stories” tells about how the boys, whose childhood and adolescence occurred in the difficult post-war years, matured. The author tells without embellishment how ambiguous the time was, without false pathos he conveys the atmosphere in which the country lived, without idealizing the criminal world, he shows its influence on the development of the personality of the hero who chose the right path in life. The second part of the book, “There is Always a Choice,” is mainly devoted to the dashing 90s of the last century, when our country was going through difficult trials, which the hero of Gennady Mikhailovich’s stories had to go through. The third part of the trilogy, “Friends and Comrades,” is made up of stories from the life of the author and his contemporaries.