What were they really like - people immortalized in bronze at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station? For the most part, fakes are known about them, invented and put into circulation already in the 21st century. It tells about real "models" of sculptures, as well as prototypes and archetypes, including the "partisan sailor Zheleznyak" and the famous pathfinder Karatsup, shown without propaganda gloss. The book is illustrated with photographs of past years.