Brilliant, sparkling, unlike anything else, the prose of Vasily Aksenov burst into our lives in the sixties (already the last century!) like a gust of fresh wind. The issues of Yunost, where “Colleagues”, “Star Ticket”, “Oranges from Morocco” were published, were read to the gills. His young heroes, “star boys,” cheerful, romantic, tried to live freely, communicated in their own language, slang, as they said then, banter, as we would say now. That’s when Aksenov’s “signature” style was created, which made the writer famous. Let today’s readers discover the world of early Aksenov and his heroes, who are essentially so similar to today’s young people.