Before us are journalistic and poetic revelations - operational analytics and sketches from nature... We need them in order to comprehend our past with today's experience. And further. They are interesting because of the fate of the author - a military intellectual, a participant in events in seven hot spots - Africa and Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the Balkans, Chechnya and Abkhazia... In 2004, Boris Podoprigora became one of the authors of the television series “I have the honor!..”, awarded the highest television and cinema awards of the country - "TEFI" and "Golden Eagle". The novel “If Anyone Hears Me,” written by him in co-authorship with Andrei Konstantinov. Critics called The Legend of the Badaber Fortress a literary monument to Afghan soldiers. The range of service of Boris Aleksandrovich Podoprigora, now an adviser to the head of the Republic of Karelia, covers the expert community of the State Duma, university departments and journalism. In his officer’s tablet, along with three university diplomas and three order books, six books and film scripts, many certificates of scientific and social distinction, a special place is occupied by creative notebooks dedicated to the dramatic events of the last 30 years. They became the basis of this book.