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On August 9, 2021, Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov passed away. This man undoubtedly left his mark on Russian culture. Writer, publicist, teacher, laureate of the Gorky State Prize of the RSFSR, member of the Supreme Creative Council under the Board of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation, honorary citizen of the cities of Krasnodar and Temryuk, Hero of Labor of Kuban, all the titles and regalia can be listed for a long time. The level of this person is difficult to overestimate, he is a colossus, whose works and biography are now carefully studied by Kuban schoolchildren in Kuban studies lessons. In the SANTAL Art Gallery, the memory of Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov is preserved by his friends. Viktor Ivanovich loved the house on Kommunarov Street, 58 (in Yekaterinodar - Borzikovskaya, 40), where the SANTAL Art Gallery has been located since 2003. And because he lived in the neighborhood, and because he was attracted to everything that breathed history. He would drop in here casually to have some tea and have a heart-to-heart talk. And at creative meetings and artist exhibitions, the writer was always an honored guest. Now, representatives of culture and art gather in the gallery to honor the memory of Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov. They recall meetings where every episode is history. Just as V.I. Likhonosov himself once collected information about his heroes, now his friends recalled the trips, travels, stories and thoughts of Viktor Ivanovich himself. As the writer himself said: "Who remembers the departed, sympathizes with the living." And so it is, because memory is our conscience.