"I will talk about individuals, about various cities, interspersing and remembered by my thinkers about the past" - this is how I. G. Ehrenburg (1891-1967) determined the idea of ​ ​ creating his memoirs, which were released in the early 60s. The famous memoirs "People, Years, Life" by Ilya Ehrenburg is one of the cult books of the mid-20th century. First published in 1960-1965. on the pages of the New World, it played an exceptional role in the formation of the generation of the sixties; it was from her that readers first learned about many pages of our history.