During the Thaw era, absolutely fantastic and at the same time rigorous ideas appeared in linguistics: mathematical linguistics, machine translation, semiotics. From this diversity arose a new science - structural linguistics. Vyach. Sun. Ivanov, Vladimir Uspensky, Igor Melchuk and other structuralists created departments and laboratories, argued about science and the country at conferences, kitchens and on hikes, spoke the truth at meetings and signed collective letters - and became real heroes of their time. Maria Buras weaves the history of time and science from witty, funny, tragic words of witnesses and participants in the genre of “linguistics. doc." "Maria Buras has created a wonderful book. This is the history of science in person, but by and large – History in general. Telling about great linguists, the publication is intended for a wide range of small linguists, which we all are" (Evgeniy Vodolazkin). The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.