The book tells about anti-aircraft missile systems: S-25 - a stationary air defense system in Moscow, transported anti-aircraft missile systems S-75, S-125, a long-range S-200 system. Many pages are devoted to the chief designer of these systems, academician Alexander Andreevich Raspletin, his associates, students, other scientists and designers. Anti-aircraft missile systems created in our country became the basis of our air defense and were exported to many countries of the world.