The book contains notes about nature and hunting, about places where I lived or visited - the Altai Mountains, the Northern Urals and the Pechora River, the Moscow Region and Belovezhskaya Pushcha, and many more places. You will read not only about various hunts and observations of nature, but also about meetings with people with whom life brought me together. After all, I began to communicate with nature from an early age and studied at the institute, receiving a specialty as a game biologist, and for the first time I picked up a hunting rifle in my hands in 1950, when I turned 16.