Novosibirsk: Institute of Mathematics . C. L. Soboleva SB RAS, Novosibirsk State University, 2012. — 212 s. The monograph for the first time carried out a systematic analysis of the phenomenon of long-term survival and reproduction of non-sporic forms of heterotrophic microorganisms in the absence of nutrients and “normal” biochemical energy sources, and also presents a generalized biophysical model of this phenomenon. In addition, the author proposed a hypothesis of the origin of an analogue of the earth's life form in a thunderstorm cloud .. The originality of the hypothesis lies in the fact that testing its adequacy does not require setting up an experiment for years in tens or even hundreds of millions of years, as all classical hypotheses require. People do not live so much, which means they can neither verify nor believe thoroughly. According to the hypothesis of the author, the precursors of living microorganisms were born five billion years ago at the dawn of the formation of the Earth, and are born to this day in micron drops of water of thunderclouds in just one or two seconds. Viktor Aleksandrovich Gusev was born in 1948. Graduated from NSU in two specialties: physics and applied mathematics . Candidate Biol . Science . Works SNS in IM SB RAS, Associate Professor NSU . He teaches at the departments of chembiophysics, biomedical physics of NSU (caf. Inform. Biology FEN and Kaf. theory. Cyber. Mekhmat NSU). Member of the International Scientific Society ISSOL.