Lyudmila Alyokhina

Based on real events that took place during the construction of the Nurek hydroelectric power station, where a new form of socialist competition, “Workers' Relay Race,” was born.

Voskoboynikov and Sergei were friends; they studied together at school and graduated from university together. Later, Yuri moved to the Urals, while Sergei stayed in Moscow. At first, they corresponded, and Yuri shared one of his wonderful ideas with Sergei, which he hadn’t been able to implement at the Ural plant. Sergei developed this idea in his dissertation and in an innovation project. And years later, Altyntsev was invited to that very Ural heavy machinery plant to implement one of the two projects in production. The author of one of them is Altyntsev, while the other project is presented by Yuri Voskoboynikov, the head of the design bureau at this plant.