Sergey Vasiliev is the first investor and chairman of the board of directors of Rambler in 1999–2001, an investment banker and chairman of the board of directors of the Russian Funds investment group. But this is now. And before there was a Soviet childhood, pioneer camps, a school, a technical school with wall newspapers and Komsomol meetings, studying at MIPT, “potatoes”, construction brigades, a student dormitory, work as an engineer and the first search for one’s way in cooperation and the banking business. This whole series of events took place against the backdrop of historical changes, which, gaining momentum, inexorably led to a turning point in the life of a huge country - the collapse of the USSR, which divided our life into before and after... The book is a collection of biographical stories, personal letters and photographs of the author at the turn of 1980 -1990s. These are private stories from the recent past of our country, so familiar to everyone who witnessed that era, and at the same time so personal.