The book is based on the author’s personal impressions of his business trips to Vietnam in the period 1961–2011. The essays included in the collection are based on factual material little known to the general reader; this is a kind of diary, a living testimony of a direct participant and eyewitness to many important events in the history of relations between our two countries. “This book,” writes the author, “is a modest tribute of love and respect to the heroic, hardworking and to the talented people of Vietnam, with whom fate has connected me for more than half a century.” The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.