Stepan Anastasovich Mikoyan, Lieutenant General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, eldest son of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, an outstanding statesman, is well known in aviation circles in our country and abroad. He had the opportunity to test or pilot all types of domestic aircraft of the second half of the 20th century - from light sports cars to heavy missile carriers. But the fighters have always remained my greatest affection. He gave a start to the skies for world-famous aircraft designed by Mikoyan-Gurevich and Sukhoi. Memoirs of Stepan Mikoyan are a vivid historical essay about Soviet fighter aviation. The author confidentially and frankly talks about the everyday life of the difficult and dangerous work of test pilots.