Modern and foreign book publishing since the 1980s began to be replenished with such type of literature as “Oral history”, that is, “oral histories”. This is a type of memoir that is minimally edited and aims to convey the author's speech and type of thinking in an absolutely primary communicative manner. The memoirs of Vladimir Nikolaevich Efremov contain their heroes and anti-heroes, a clear geographical and chronological reference, while they are not at all artistically conjectured - they are photographically contrasting. The reader is invited to look at the events described not only from an evaluative point of view, but also as an opportunity to hear a difficult time from different angles, with work for his soul - to remember and feel the time. Contains obscene language.