This book consists of poems and songs about the Luhansk region and Donbass, the author of which is an outstanding songwriter, poet-patriot, Honorary Citizen of the city of Lugansk, the author of the words of the world famous song "Moscow Nights" Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky. The book includes more than a hundred works of the poet, as well as some of his statements about his work related to his small homeland. The compiler of the collection does not pretend to be a scientific selection of the poet's works. He publishes the poems and songs of M. Matusovsky in the edition in which they are presented in the editions used by the compiler. The list of sources is published at the end of the book.