About the book: 2012 / Evgeny Ivanovich Chazov for twenty years (from 1967 to 1986) headed the 4th Main Directorate under the USSR Ministry of Health, which served top leaders of the Soviet Union. It was at this time that the so-called “round dance of deaths” took place, when three General Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee (Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko), several members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (Grechko, Kulakov, Suslov, Pelshe, Ustinov), and a number of regional committee secretaries died one after another. and regional party committees. While some of these deaths can be explained by the advanced age of the deceased, others are mysterious and raise many questions.E. I. Chazov, on duty, was obliged to know everything about the state of health and causes of death of his charges; in his book he tells how Soviet leaders passed away, and also shares his memories of the situation that then developed in the highest echelons of power.