Documentary essays about a real person against the background of time. Nikolai Alekseevich Kucherenko (1907-1976) - Soviet design engineer, one of the creators of the T-34 tank. Laureate of three Stalin Prizes. Little-known historical material about events in the development of the domestic tank industry, which became the background for the image of N.A. Kucherenko, through whose entire adult life tanks "passed" in the literal sense of the word - he created them as a designer and figuratively - he participated in tank building as a producer and administrator. The book combines genres of historical, documentary and memorial nature.