The hero ends up in the body of a university graduate who is just getting a job at an academic institute as a junior researcher. Ahead of him lies a not very friendly team, agricultural work, numerous business trips to secluded places in the country and work for the glory of the military-industrial complex. Well, and girls, of course, where would we be without them? The year is 1982, the last in the life of Leonid Ilyich. Ahead lies five years of magnificent funerals and the decline of the Soviet empire. How and what the hero will be able to do in this generally hopeless era, time will tell... or it won’t show, one of two things. The cover was made by Dmitry DM