About the book: 2024 / After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Communications in 1968, I was assigned to work at the Research Institute of Railway Transport, where I worked for exactly three years in my specialty as a radio engineer . At the beginning of 1971, I received a summons demanding to come to the military registration and enlistment office. As expected, the medical commission declared me fit for service. There were practically no health restrictions for officers at all, otherwise we would not have been trained at the military department of the institute. Officers who graduated from universities were then called up as needed at any time of the year by order of the Minister of Defense. While still studying, I was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant, which at that time provided for service for 2 years in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Thus, I ended up in the Soviet Army and served for two years in the Arctic at the RRL "North""