The collection contains biographical essays about the formation of sociological science and the professional community of sociologists in the 1960s, as well as the publication of documents stored in state and personal archives. The book includes the memoirs of E. A. Arab-Ogly, I. V. Bestuzhev-Lada, A. A. Galkin, L. A. Gordon, B. A. Grushin, Yu. N. Davydova, T. I. Zaslavskaya, A. G. Zdravomyslova, L. V. Karpinsky, L. N. Kogan, V.V. Kolbanovsky, I.S. Kona, N.I. Lapina, Yu. A. Levada, N.F. Naumova, V. B. Olshansky, L. A. Onikov, G. V. Osipov, N.V. Pilipenko, M.N. Rutkevich, R.V. Rybkina, V.S. Semenova, B.M. Firsova, V.N. Shubkina, V.A. Yadova.