all fifteen parts of the novel devoted to newspaper journalists. each of them has a real prototype, which are current and former employees of the editorial staff of "moskovskij komsomolets" — dmitry kholodov, andrei lapik, vadim poegli, andrey yahontov, peter spectr, andrei gusev, natalya zhuravleva, elena vasiluhina and others, including the chief editor . they all connected with the main character — sergey ogloedov, in which the author described himself.