Pshenichnikov Viktor Lukyanovich is from that generation whose destinies were scorched by war from a young age. He was born in the Urals and raised in an orphanage. He graduated from a vocational school and began working as a blacksmith at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. His senior comrades, mentors, worked here during the Great Patriotic War, when the giant of domestic metallurgy provided hundreds of thousands of shells for the front... These people became his teachers, instilled pride in the title of working man, and their work itself - hard and noble - inspired to creativity. He first began writing in the army, when he served in Transbaikalia, and the heroes of these stories were soldiers, his peers. After serving in the Soviet Army, V. L. Pshenichnikov studied at the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky and at the same time worked in the magazine “Border Guard”. From then on, his fate was firmly connected with the border. His first story about soldiers in green caps - “Where Men Live” - was published in 1976 in the Library of the magazine “Border Guard” and was warmly received by readers and received critical approval. V. L. Pshenichnikov’s stories were published in the newspapers “Literary Russia” , “Moskovskaya Pravda”, magazines “Border Guard”, “Soviet Warrior”, “Seeker” and others, were published in the publishing houses “Soviet Russia”, “Izvestia”, “Sovremennik”, “DOSAAF”, Military Publishing House, published abroad. author of books and short stories: “The Last Meters”, “Where Trains Don’t Go”, “Eight Minutes of Alarm”, “The Day It Rained” and others.