Time is inexorable. The world of Lesnoy is a thing of the past, with rare exceptions it has disappeared almost irrevocably. Nowadays old Lesnoy exists only as separate islands in a sea of standard brick and panel buildings. All the more valuable is this book - a book about houses, streets and, above all, about the people who lived here. The reader will find on the pages of this publication many names of prominent people who lived here, and will learn about their destinies, which sometimes led them far from their native maples and acacias. Without this “human factor,” Lesnoy’s story would have been not only incomplete, but unthinkable.