About the book: 1980 / Among those who, next to Lenin, went through the entire path of struggle, exile and revolution, was his closest friend Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky. An engineer by training and a poet at heart, the author of “Varshavyanka”, after the victory of October, G. M. Krzhizhanovsky devoted all his revolutionary ardor, knowledge and talent to the creation of a unified State Plan for the development of the country. In the implementation of the GOELRO plan, the “second program of the party,” the whole world visibly saw socialism for the first time. Having become vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, G. M. Krzhizhanovsky actively fought to turn the academy towards life, industry, agriculture, and towards building a new society.