The tutorial has three goals. The first goal is to study the methodology and mastery by students of the method of oral history and the method of creating oral history sources. The second goal is the publication of collected unique evidence of contemporaries of important historical events. The third goal is to study, according to eyewitness accounts, such key events in Russian history of 1940-2000, like the Great Patriotic War, the development of education in the conditions of the scientific and technical revolution and the emergence of new universities in the national republics, fighting on the territory of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1979-1989, the collapse of the USSR and the contradictory processes of perestroika in the late 1980-1990s. For students of Chuvash State University and everyone interested in Russian history of the twentieth century. and problems of oral history.