The heroes of the stories and stories of Ilya Kashafutdinov are villagers, townspeople, sailors, atomic physicists who live by the labors and worries of our days. The characters of contemporaries are shown in interesting life situations. The aesthetic credo of the writer is the affirmation of genuine camaraderie, the power of goodness and beauty, the denial of consumer attitudes towards the spiritual values ​ ​ of our society.