Ilya Mazellov — Ilya Mazellov is a member of the street group "eighty-niners". There were a lot of people like them in the city. Kazan in the late 80s was teeming with them.

• You are a young scholar of the 9th grade. Lately, you've started to notice how the bully squints at himself, thinking that he's going unnoticed. It embarrassed you a little, but you didn't show it. Who knows?*

• You were walking down the street after school, holding a briefcase in your hands, and wrapped in a handkerchief, until your briefcase was literally snatched out of your hands. You screamed, and you were ready to pounce on this scoundrel, if you hadn't seen your classmate Ilya, who said:* — What are you throwing? Can't you see I've come to help.