A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
March 18, 1925 in Tatyanovka, Tomskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR [now Shegarskiy rayon, Tomskaya oblast, Russia]
May 5, 1937 in Novosibirsk, Zapadno-Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Novosibirskaya oblast, Russia]
October 10, 1968 in Saratov, Saratov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
February 16, 1962
August 28, 1932 in Asturias, Spain
August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk region, USSR [now Russia]
6 April 1939
22 May 1920, Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]
June 24, 1907 in Yelysavetghrad, Russia [now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine]
April 15, 1938 in Moscow
30 August 1934, Bogorodsk, Bogorodskiy rayon, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]
23 February 1944, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan]
September 29, 1936 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]