Georgy Sviridov in the memoirs of contemporaries / Sost . and comment. A. B. Wulfs; Avt. Preceded by . In. G. Rasputin . - M. The Young Guard, 2006[edit] — 763(5) s. : il. — (Library of Memoirs: Near Past; Issue.) 16). ISBN 5-235-02811-2 On the great composer Georgy Sviridov, a thinker, a master of the word and, above all, a peculiar person, his classmates, friends, associates, famous musicians, writers, scientists tell . This is the first non-linguistic book that paints his living image truthfully, without retouching, but with the understanding that before the readers is a person marked by a divine gift .. Many facts and events of the composer's life are revealed for the first time, for example, the genealogy of the Sviridovs, Yura's childhood in Fatezh and Kursk, military days in a secret communication school. In fact, these "Memories" made up the first biography of G. In. Sviridova . The value of these memories is also in the fact that the authors reproduce almost verbatim interesting statements and judgments of G. In the Qur’an, they either recited it or recited it in the Qur’an. For the first time, the composer's letters to his wife and son are published, provided by A. L. Sviridova . The publication is illustrated with photographs from the personal archives of relatives and authors of memoirs.