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The volume of autobiographical and memoir prose by the famous Russian writer Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994) includes the novellas "The Light at the End of the Tunnel," "School Album," "Against the Backdrop of Lies," the cycles of stories "Clean Ponds" and "War from the Back Entrance," as well as memories of Mikhail Zoshchenko, Heinrich Neigauz, and Alexander Galich. The emotional confessional quality, the ease and clarity of the prose, rich metaphorical language, original rhythmic structure of the narrative, and the uncompromising nature of the author's position are the qualities inherent in Nagibin's works presented in this volume.