Dannaia kniga - tretia v trilogii "Krug Landau" (pervaia kniga - "Zhizn geniia", vtoraia - "Fizika voiny i mira"). Ona prodolzhaet rasskaz ob akademike L.D. Landau (1908-1968), laureate Nobelevskoi premii, Leninskoi i trekh Stalinskikh premii. V knige 12 glav. V nikh privedeny ocherki o glavnykh geroiakh-uchenykh, uchenikakh i/ili sovremennikakh Landau, s nim blizko soprikasavshikhsia. eto E.M. Lifshitc i I.M. Lifshitc, A.S. Kompaneetc, A.B. Migdal, V.L. Ginzburg, A.A. Abrikosov, I.M. Khalatnikov, Ia.B. Zeldovich, P.L. Kapitca, A.I. Leipunskii, V.S. Fursov (dekan fizfaka MGU), M.A. Styrikovich (energetik). V sobytiiakh uchastvuet mnozhestvo drugikh vydaiushchikhsia uchenykh. eto, v chastnosti, N. Bor, I.E. Tamm, I.G. Petrovskii, R.Z. Sagdeev, L.A .Artcimovich, I.Ia. Pomeranchuk, V.G. Levich, E.L. Feinberg, V.Ia. Fainberg, V.P. Silin, Iu.L. Klimontovich, A.A. Rukhadze i drugie, predstavlennye iarkimi epizodami i kharakteristikami v galeree ocherkov i portretov. V Prilozhenii dany lektciia E.M. Lifshitca "L.D. Landau - uchenyi, uchitel, chelovek", pismo P.L. Kapitcy I.V. Stalinu (polnyi tekst) i dr. Dlia shirokogo kruga chitatelei, interesuiushchikhsia istoriei fiziki XX veka.