The title of the book, “Boys Coming Out of the Barracks,” speaks for itself: in it, the post-war country is presented through the prism of the perception of a 10-year-old boy. The boys, whose parents and his comrades begin in 1949 to build the first post-war hydroelectric power station - Gorkovskaya and build a village that will later grow into the city of Zavolzhye (now Nizhny Novgorod region). This “journey to childhood” is a unique historical testimony. The life of builders, the post-war mood of the people, holidays at a large construction site, city events, an emergency at school on the day of Joseph Stalin’s death - the author recalls many things