I was six and a half years, and I lived with the soul wide open to meet people, to the great things that always happened and the extraordinary is going to happen in the future, happy that I live, anticipating a new joy, new developments, soaking up the love and knowledge about our beautiful world Then came the war. Everything in my life changed. I was quite different. Four years later, when I returned after the war to Leningrad, I was sitting in the war. And it is this war, knowing about it, stayed with me for a lifetime. Boy Wartime ... With much love to the family. With the firm belief...

The author talks about his school years in Leningrad (USSR), about their hobbies and about his first love. These were the last years of Stalin's time, the time when shot "enemies" and "traitors" on false charges, when the Jews, who were called "rootless cosmopolitans" when the Jews were going to be resettled in Siberia or even further to the Far East.

I wanted to become a nuclear physicist, but I was not allowed to study, because I was a Jew. Three and a half years I have studied in another department, but after the death of Stalin and the Twentieth Party Congress, I still managed to go on the physico-mechanical faculty. I was elected second secretary of the Komsomol committee of the institute. In the summer, I worked in the Komsomol youth construction sites; in the fall, went to harvest; I participated in the creation of the Komsomol patrols and raids to clean up the city from criminals. I had to meet with the betrayal of a friend and a...

In the second book "Impressions" Luba Kachan continues to share her thoughts about eternal values, reflects on the nature and inclinations of man, his soul and its healing, "the education of the senses." The book begins with an impressive story about the actor Sophia Holliday, plucked from obscurity and immortalized by the great Marina Tsvetaeva ("Tale of Sonechka"). In the essay "Gabriela Mistral" Luba Kachan actually opens the great Chilean poet for the Russian readers. The diary entries, placed in the book, tell of encounters with the beautiful. She writes about Alfred Schnittke concertos,...

The book tells about the third year of the life of a young scientist in a newly built Academgorodock, near Novosibirsk. He describes the events he had witnessed, and he often took part. In 1961, he formulates the principles of social development of that place. He did not invent them but he wanted to realize them in Academgorodock. He dreams the Academgorodock will be the most beautiful and the most comfortable place where to live, and to be the township of the happy people. He hopes that gradually everything will change for the best. He wants to be the direct participant in these changes, and...

The book describes the life of a young scientist and the events of the fourth year in Academgorodock, Novosibirsk. The new research teams have moved to the modern laboratories. Nevertheless, there is still a shortage of kindergartens, nurseries, shops, canteens and consumer services. He was voted the first deputy chairman of the trade union organization, and he starts to accomplish his dreams. He started to create Club of Yung Techniques and Child department in the House of Culture "Academia." It was the time when there were the cafe-club "Under the Integral," the amateur theater, and some...

The books 9 and 10 continue to describe the life of a young scientist in Academgorodock, Novosibirsk. He takes the principal part in improving social life in the new scientific city. He starts to realize the development of his project. Under his initiative and leadership, The Club for young technicians and The Music school for children were opened by him. He contributes to the creation of the scientific cafe-club Under the Integral. The trip to Issyk-Kul results the marked improvement in the conditions of the life in the holiday home for scientists of the Siberian Branch and the Kyrgyz...