My friends are beautiful features. Memories

Boris Nikolaevich Pastukhov is a state and public figure, whose biography is inextricably linked with the history of our country. His track record is very extensive - the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, chairman of the State Committee of the USSR for publishing houses, printing and book trade, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Denmark and Afghanistan, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Government of the Russian Federation for CIS Affairs, senior vice president Chambers of the Russian Federation. Memoirs of B.N. Pastukhov attract attention with the names of many outstanding personalities, including Yuri Gagarin, Alexander Pakhmutov, Metropolitan Pitim, Natalia Satz, Mikhail Botvinnik, Evgeny Primakov. In the essays about those who were his mentors, comrades and friends, the author gives new touches to the portraits of these outstanding people and shares his views on the ways of Russia"s development