About the book: 1978 / One of the glorious galaxy of innovators of the first five-year plans, the initiator of the Stakhanov movement in railway transport Pyotr Fedorovich Krivonos is widely known in our country and abroad. In the thirties, he was the first among locomotive drivers to begin the struggle for high boiler speed, increasing train speed, and the best use of the locomotive fleet. Hero of Socialist Labor P. F. Krivonos went through a difficult path from a locomotive driver to the head of large railway lines. A veteran of labor, deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine talks about the emergence of innovative initiative in socialist competition, the establishment of new labor traditions, and his great state and public activities.