The star of this man did not shine for long on the political horizon of the Soviet era. It would seem that the personality of K. U. Chernenko left a very definite impression on the people's memory: he personified the last years of the 'stagnation' era. But everything was not as simple as it seems even after a quarter of a century after his death. What kind of person was he in reality? Viktor Pribytkov, one of the people closest to him, who worked as his assistant in the last years of Chernenko's life, tried to answer this question in a book.