About the book: year / Yuri Arkadyevich Borisov was born on November 4, 1944 in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Territory. He died on July 17, 1999 in St. Petersburg. During the war, the family lived in Ussuriysk. Mother worked as a cashier and tram conductor, father was a hammerman. In June 1946, the family returned to Leningrad. Yuri was brought up mainly in the orphanage of the Zhdanovsky district on Kamenny Island. After school, from the age of 14, he studied at a vocational school to become a revolver turner. There I met Valery Agafonov. While studying, he received a sentence for petty hooliganism and spent about 3 years in a juvenile colony in the Lipetsk region. Later he was sent to prison again for theft. Having freed himself, at the age of 18–19 he entered a hairdressing school. I almost didn’t work in my specialties - I saved my hands for playing the guitar. His mother played the 7-string guitar and accordion, and Yuri began playing the guitar as a teenager. In the mid-60s, he met guitarist Alexander Ivanovich Kovalev, before the war he was the winner of many awards and competitions in classical guitar. Kovalev taught Yuri to play, Yuri studied 6-7 hours a day. He wrote pieces for guitar (“Green Cypress”). He entered the correspondence faculty of the Moscow Institute of Culture, studied musical notation and composition, but did not graduate from the institute. After a year or two, I taught classical 6-string guitar in paid courses for adults - 2-3 hours a week. He taught alternately in several places, including at the LDHS, at the Theater of Folk Art. He began writing poems in childhood, sent some to the Lenin Sparks newspaper, but they were not published. He began to write song poetry much later. He knew how to work in wood and made pipes. With a friend, artist Vitaly Klimov, he made guitars and got a job in the warehouse of the Musical Instrument Factory. They made 3 or 4 instruments, one of which “Juliet” was played by Valery Agafonov. The three of us were friends with Agafonov and Klimov. Later, in a colony in Borovichi, Novgorod region, where he was imprisoned for forging his wife Lyuba’s sick leave certificate, he graduated from vocational school No. 10 and on June 30, 1984 received a diploma of a 4th category carpenter-furniture maker. In the early 80s he wrote the song “Dawn has set for the forest …” for the film “I Can’t Guarantee Personal Danger” (directors Natalya Troshchenko and Anatoly Vikhodko, second director Valery Bychenkov, Lenfilm). In the film, the song was performed by V. Agafonov. He wrote songs of the White Guard cycle, which, through Finland, came further to the west. At various times, Yuri Borisov worked as a loader in a store and at the Lenfilm film studio, as a janitor - mixed with imprisonment for parasitism and lack of registration (lived in basements and attics).In 1978–1979 he was imprisoned in a colony in Central Asia, where he suffered from poor health. Died of tuberculosis in a hospital on Poklonnaya Gora on July 17, 1990 at 8 a.m..