The book of V.S. Malyshev, Doctor of Art History, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the M20 of Russia, who led the Gosfilmofond for more than 11 years, reflects the main stages of the formation of the world's largest cinema storage, the main Russian treasury of films, which is on a par with the Hermitage and the Russian State Library, the Bolshoi Theater and the Russian Museum.