Culture. Fates. Time. Presenter Galina Zotova. In September, the anniversary plenum of the USSR Writers' Union took place in Moscow. Vasily Aksyonov share his memories and impressions associated with this event. The author calls the Writers' Union the Union of Helpers, 2. The YMCA-press publishing house published a book of poems by Zinaida Gipius in the Selected Poetry series. Writer Sergei Dovlatov about the book and work of Z. Gipius. Gypius's work is underestimated, both by the current generation of Western word writers and by the Russian reading public in exile. In the Soviet Union, the work of Giptus is generally hushed up.