The author of this book worked in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine for more than 20 years and personally knew Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky well. In his memoirs, he talks about many unknown pages in the life of this political and statesman, as well as about a bygone era, about the life and morals of the leaders of the USSR and Soviet Ukraine in the 1960s and 1980s. This is a story about the time when the world power of the USSR existed and which the fathers and grandfathers of the people of the current generation remember very well.