About the book: 2020 / About each of the four great heroes of this book - Valery Kharlamov, Anatoly Tarasov, Leo Yashin and Konstantin Beskov - millions of lines were written. But the author of “Heroes of Not Our Time,” the famous sports journalist and writer Igor Rabiner, took a different path that will allow you to look at these people in a new way. Starting from his conversations with Kharlamov’s sister, Tarasov’s daughter, and the wives of Yashin and Beskov, he brought together stories about them from relatives, friends, colleagues and students. There is no room for pretentious exaltation or low-grade “yellowness” in them, but there are hundreds of stories that created four voluminous collective portraits. Before you are people, not monuments, and in their destinies there are no less dramas, and even tragedies, than victories. They have not been with us for a long time, but in this book they come to life in all the brightness, scale, and often the contradictory nature of their personalities..