Georgy Markovich Kornienko - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honored Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation, Hero of Socialist Labor. During forty years of service in foreign policy, he had to be a participant in the most important events of international life in the post-war period. At the same time, by the will of fate, he turned out to be an eyewitness to the behind-the-scenes side of how not only foreign, but also domestic politics was going on in the highest echelons of power before and after 1985.