Book by front-line professor I.V. Kuznetsov contains memories of his military path from Smolensk to Koenigsberg and from Koenigsberg to Port Arthur, as well as the history of the creation and development of journalistic education at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Of undoubted interest are the pages of the book about journalistic pre-university education, about the creation of a journalism department at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 1947, about the first graduate journalists, among whom was the author of the published book. For a wide range of readers.