About the book: 1981 / Boris Kostyukovsky, one of the co-authors of this story, is known to both adult and young readers. Over many years of literary work, he published almost three dozen books, including “Siberians”, “In the Akatuya Mountains”, “Earthly Brothers”, “Declaration of Love”, “A Trip to the Sun”, etc. Semyon Tabachnikov is a former military journalist , now a member of the Writers' Union. Working in a creative collaboration, B. Kostyukovsky and S. Tabachnikov created two fictional and documentary stories - “Russian Marat” (about V. L. Shantser) and “Oil Kings” (about D. Takakov). Book “The Main University” is written in the same genre and is dedicated to one of those wonderful people who emerged from the people who stood at the origins of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Mikhail Ivanovich Vasiliev-Yuzhin. The son of a janitor and a washerwoman, he became a comprehensively educated man. The authors show the path of Yuzhin the revolutionary from a student reflecting on life to one of the leaders of the Baku, and then Saratov and Moscow organizations of the RSDLP.