The book “This Strange Life”, first published in 1974 (with a circulation of 100,000 copies!), has been reprinted dozens of times over almost forty years, it has been translated into several languages, including English and German, and it is rightfully is considered the ancestor and inspirer of modern time management. This book inspired Gleb Arkhangelsky to create the only company in Russia specializing exclusively in time management.

Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev (1890–1972) - entomologist, specialist in one of the the most complex subfamilies of leaf beetles, the so-called flea beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae), and plant protection. He is known for his more general works on the application of mathematical methods in biology, on general problems of biological systematics, the theory of evolution and philosophy. He created a time-keeping system, which he used for 56 years (from 1916 to 1972). Actually, he is the founder and developer of the principles of goal setting and time tracking, today called time management. He spoke several languages: English, German, Italian, French, and learned the first two in transport.

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin - a classic of Russian literature, whose writing career began back in 1949. After graduating from the electrical engineering department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, he worked as an engineer at the Kirov plant. During the war he went to the front, where he fought in tank forces. After the war, he worked at a research institute and Lenenergo. When the writer was 30 years old, Zvezda magazine published his story “Option Two.” The public and critics liked this work. The second work, “Dispute Across the Ocean,” was, on the contrary, criticized. For some time Granin combined science and literature. However, later science had to be abandoned in the name of literature. The main direction of creativity is the poetry of scientific and technological progress. Granin wrote stories, novels, essays, scripts about what was always close to him: about engineers, scientists, scientists. The author of more than 30 books, over a dozen of them were filmed. Winner of foreign and domestic literary awards, twice winner of the State Prize, winner of the Big Book Prize in 2012. Founder of the country's first Relief Society. The most famous works: “This Strange Life”, “My Lieutenant”, “The Siege Book”, “I’m Going into a Storm”. Daniil Alexandrovich lives and works in St. Petersburg.