A fragment of prison memoirs of chief designer of Kirov factory of artillery weapons I.A. Makhanov is presented in the article. The memoirs were not published yet. Until recently memoirist was presumed dead in Stalin's torture chambers, but as it turned out, he survived and even descripted in details his prison odyssey. As a Bolshevik-Leninist from the generation of "children of the revolution" he was good educated, took one of the key positions in the military industrial complex of the USSR,

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... d was well received in the highest echelons of power in Soviet Russia. Through access to information, including classified materials, he viewed firsthand the events occurred in the country. Presented fragment gives overview about his memoirs and describes his being in Sukhanovo prison, about which almost nothing is known until today.