About the book: 1985 / The transformation of the Soviet Country into the leading industrial power of the world occurred thanks to the tireless heroic work of workers and peasants, the creative genius of engineers - leaders and organizers of the great construction project, designers, inventors, explorers of the paths of technical progress. Metallurgist and shipbuilder, and at the same time a prominent party and statesman, minister, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, prominent hydropower engineer Andrei Efimovich Bochkin, builder of the unique Ostankino television tower Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikitin, inventor of the coal miner Alexey Ivanovich Bakhmutsky and many other famous engineers - heroes of the essays that made up this collection (compiled by L. B. Ivanov).