About the book: 1962 / Ivan Baukov's story "The Youth of My Friend" is like a biography of a rural youth who, having found himself at a large construction site, becomes the master of his destiny . Step by step, the author reveals more and more new features of the hero. In the first chapters of the story we are dealing with a young man who thinks only about himself, lives for himself. But the new environment and the work team made him a different person. During the “assault” of Dneprostroy, he accomplishes a feat. At the factory, he also cannot work from beep to beep, or leave work unfinished, and this managerial trait does not go unnoticed. The Komsomol sends him to study. The author shows well the first youthful love of the hero of the story. A whole series of lyrical chapters figuratively recreates unforgettable pictures of Russian nature.