Vladimir Vysotsky has not been with us for 35 years. During this time, a generation grew up that never went “to harvest potatoes”, did not languish at “lectures on the international situation”, did not sit on breadcrumbs on business trips abroad in order to carve out a tape recorder or jeans from a strictly limited amount of currency. Young people no longer know such concepts as “orudovets”, “brigadmil” and even “pioneer leader”. How can we help them understand and love Vysotsky’s work as much as their parents love him? The best poetic works of Vysotsky collected in this book will help you feel how faithfully the great bard reflected his era - and with it the eternal problems of existence.