Vladimir Grosman was born in Kaluga in the first half of the last century. During the years of impeccable service for the benefit of the Fatherland, he changed several names and professions. Working as a loader at the Pankovsky mechanical repair plant, he was called Vovchik, later, as an assistant to the head of Soviet specialists at the construction of a metallurgical plant in Visakhapatnam (India), he was called Vladimir Mikhailovich, currently his neighbors call him simply - Mikhalych. Other milestones of his biography are outlined in a dotted manner in this publication. Married once, member of the Union of Journalists since 1968. Came into memoir writing as a result of a nervous shock caused by the depreciation of the ruble.