My friends have beautiful features

Boris Nikolayevich Pastukhov is a state and public figure whose biography is inextricably linked with the history of our country. His track record is the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Civil Code, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Publishing Houses, Printing and Book Trading, Emergency and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in Denmark and Afghanistan, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Government of the Russian Federation for CIS Affairs, Senior Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. B. N. Pastukhov"s memories attract attention to the names of many outstanding personalities, including Yuri Gagarin, Alexander Pakhmutova, Metropolitan Pitirim, Natalia Sats, Mikhail Botvinnik, Evgeny Primakov. In the essays about those who were his mentors, comrades and friends, the author gives new strokes to portraits of these outstanding people and shares their views on the paths of development of Russia.
Compilation and literary treatment I. I. Tsybulsky
2nd edition