This book is about the outstanding domestic shipbuilder Rostislav Evgenievich Alekseev, who was one of the first in world practice to develop and create serial warships and passenger hydrofoils and ekranoplanes. He laid the scientific and technical foundations for the creation of hydrofoils and dynamic hovercraft, and was a talented organizer of the entire industry of high-speed shipbuilding. Alekseev is the developer of many original ideas that had a fundamentally important impact on the development of the world high-speed fleet, Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of the Higher Attestation Commission, author of scientific papers and many inventions, who left behind a scientific and practical school for creating cruise ships.