The author of the book “The Notorious Era in Faces and Masks, Events and Incidents” is the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, former chairman of the VAAP, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Boris Pankin. The reader is presented with a whole gallery of images of extraordinary people: Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Olof Palme and Margaret Thatcher, Yuri Gagarin and Astrid Lindgren and many, many others whom the author had the opportunity to meet throughout his life. A lively and fascinating story about them forms the outline of memoirs, on the pages of which these people appear in a new, sometimes unexpected perspective.