The book is devoted to a man of outstanding personality of the Soviet state — Patolichev Nikolay Semyonovich (1908-1989) - the Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1958 to 1985. During this period under his direction a powerful complex for foreign economic activities was formed, which played an exclusive role in the development of industry, energy, transport, agriculture and meeting the demands of the population. Thus, that was quite an outstanding period in the Russian Foreign Trade history. .The authors of the book for many years have been engaged in the system of foreign economic relations, participated in or continued undertakings of N.S. Patolichev. .Vladislav Leonidovich Malkevic