With the novel “And the Darkness Will Rise (Eighties),” the author makes an attempt to comprehend one of the most difficult and controversial periods of the Soviet era: the apogee of finally victorious socialism and its rapid collapse. The search for the deep sources of cruelty and the causes of suffering in the lives of ordinary people from a provincial town in the heart of a great country, vivid images of clashes of worldviews, forces and characters, personal tragedies of heroes against the background of a collective tragedy are distinguished by the property of multidimensionality: comprehension of the world by a child’s mind, attempts to understand the flow of events seen through the eyes of little Alyosha Panarov, they find parallels and reflections in the thoughts and actions of adults - ambiguous, contradictory, sometimes leading to the brink of death. If the reader feels the need to rethink, comprehend with an indent the measure of what happened in the eighties, when time smooths out the contours, conceals the outlines and dims the brightness of impressions from events - this book is for him. If the reader thinks about the ontology of cruelty and the dialectics of human actions, reflects on the world, its meaning and reality, walking along the philosophical paths of his predecessors, from the Pre-Socratics to the existentialists and neo-Kantians, this book is for him. If the reader enjoys the aesthetics of symbolism, the Silver Age, Blok's poetry, Quattrocento and Expressionist painting, this book is for him. The fall of the third Rome, the darkness that rose from the depths of the collective consciousness, covering the country with a radioactive cloud of burning Chernobyl, the birth of other winds that would sweep like hurricanes later, in the nineties, the struggle of forces trying to direct these winds into their sails and stay afloat, forces indifferent to death ordinary people accidentally drawn into their field, and indestructible hope for the best, loyalty, love - all this is in Sergei Zakharov’s novel “And the Mist Will Rise (Eighties).”