A book of essays and stories connected by one through thread - memory. The one that does not leave for good, but remains in life forever, marking the main reference points of fate... The first steps on the earth in distant Germany. Childhood on the Baltic shores and in remote Tambov villages. School corridors along which Tsiolkovsky still walked. An unexpected meeting with the first astronaut to set foot on the moon. Tears at a lecture at MISiS on the day of Brezhnev’s death. Hot everyday life at the smoking foundry furnaces. Traveling with railway workers along distant railway districts. Journalistic cuisine with lessons in journalism from such masters as Otto Latsis and Igor Babichev... And - the constant presence of many literary addresses in the address book of life. Sometimes unexpectedly becoming their own addresses. As it happened, for example, in the author’s stories of meeting with the works of Ivan Turgenev, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nikolai Panchenko, Ilya Selvinsky, Boris Slutsky, Vladimir Koblikov, Sergei Sergeev-Tsensky...