The one-volume collection of selected works by Lenin Komsomol Prize laureate Mikhail Shevchenko includes the well-known stories “Just One Spring,” “The Road Through the Ruins” and “Who Are You on Earth,” as well as stories about youthful decisive courage and first pure love, about the resilience of contemporaries, on whose shoulders the difficulties of the formation of our lives fall, about their morality, their devotion to their destiny on earth. The one-volume book includes literary portraits of A. Fadeev, M. Sholokhov, A. Platonov, K. Paustovsky, V. Lidin, S. Smirnov, V. Tendryakov, M. Svetlov, Y. Smelyakov and other writers with whom the author had the opportunity to meet, as well as a story about A. Prasolov, whom the author knew for many years.