About the book: 2016 / The book contains time series of more than a hundred important indicators of industry and construction of our country since the middle of the last century. This edition clarifies past data and adds a number of new visual indicators, and some are removed because they are considered uninformative or not entirely understandable by readers. Compared to previous editions, this book covers more than just the economic reform of the 1990s. in industry, but also its long prehistory (industrialization of the 1950s–1980s, perestroika in the late 1980s), as well as its long-term “post-industrial” consequences in the early to mid-2010s. According to the dynamics of the vast majority of industrial indicators of post-war reconstruction and construction, the consistent development of our country during the years of “stagnation” and up to the start of reform in the early 1990s. no signals are detected that would require an urgent radical restructuring of economic life and subsequent economic reform in Russia. The dynamics of indicators after 2000 show the depth of the crisis of the 1990s. and its inertia, highlights those aspects of domestic industry in which the crisis continues at the same pace and at the same time reveals those sectors where the situation is improving and even exceeding pre-reform levels. There are not many similar productions yet, but it is important to start. In general, a comparison of the Soviet period (1950–1990), the period of radical reforms (1991–1999) and the “Putin era” (from 2000 to the present) , clearly presented in graphs, provides an empirical basis for a productive dialogue about designing a favorable industrial future for our country.