Yaroslav Golovanov was born in 1932 into an acting family. In 1956 he graduated from the rocket department of the Moscow Higher Technical University. Bauman and worked for two years at a research institute, whose scientific director was academician M. V. Keldysh, then for more than 40 years at the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. Main area of interest: history of science and astronautics. Author of more than 20 scientific, fiction and prose books, published in 25 languages. The three-volume “Notes of Your Contemporary” covers almost half a century of the author’s life and is perhaps the most popular work of Yaroslav Golovanov for the widest range of readers, since it contains everything from anecdotes to portraits of celebrities, from space secrets to caustic criticism of the morals of our days. The second the volume of “Notes” covers the 70s, the “stagnant” years of the last century, which, however, were not so “stagnant” for Yaroslav Golovanov. Among the records of those years: climbing the Kamchatka volcanoes, a trip to Japan for the World Exhibition, reflections on the feelings of plants, “aliens”, the Bermuda Triangle, the mysterious African Dagon tribe, the Nessie monster, a flight to Singapore and the Philippine Islands, a tour of US scientific centers, the beginning of travel through the lands of the Non-Black Earth Region, reports from Houston during the flights of Russians and Americans under the Soyuz - Apollo program, continuation of work on the main book “Korolev. Facts and Myths" and hundreds of other, most diverse and unexpected notes, facts, observations, quotes.