The historical and biographical book is dedicated to the life and work of the chief designer (1976-1998) of the AVTOVAZ production association (then the joint stock company of the same name) Georgy Konstantinovich Mirzoev, now an adviser to the AVTOVAZ vice-president for technical development. Assess the scale, the depth and significance of this personality will be helped by a simple listing of facts and phenomena to the reader: VAZ-2104, -2105, -2107, introduction of front-wheel drive design, VAZ-2108, -2109, “Oka”, “Samara” family, electric cars, cars with rotary piston engines, "ten", construction of an industry scientific and technical center, "Niva", "Kalina", cars on alternative fuels "Antel", VAZ-2123 (later known as the "Chevrolet Niva") - in fact, this those “signature steps” of the Volzhsky Automobile Plant, AVTOVAZ, which underlie its current existence and which are considered in history as the main milestones and achievements of the passenger car industry of the USSR, its last years of existence, and the initial history of modern Russia. Without exaggeration, this book is the first attempt at a systematic biography of the Chief Designer of the passenger car industry of our country. The book uses photographs from the family archive of G.K. Mirzoev. and archival funds of JSC AVTOVAZ.