It is no coincidence that little has been written about Yuri Dmitrievich Maslyukov. For twenty years we have been taught to think about the only correct path that Russia chose and which it followed, about the genius of the team of Gaidar and Chubais and about Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, who showed the path of democratic development. Maslyukov was a representative and ideologist of a completely different, alternative path. A path that was so effective, clear and reasonable that even eight months of Maslyukov’s work in the government as part of a magnificent troika - together with Prime Minister Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov and chief banker Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko - made it possible for the country to emerge from the severe crisis into which it was driven more than ten years, and lay the foundations that made it possible to preserve the military-industrial potential.