In his speech, Arseny Zhilyaev talked about the generation of the first post-Soviet shuttle businessmen through the history of the labor biography of Soviet engineer Alexander Dolgov, who after the collapse of the USSR became a private entrepreneur in "Labor" market in Voronezh, and then would have to return to his original profession. In addition, the shuttle trader figure was considered as one of the possible models for interpreting strategies of artistic behavior in the first post-Soviet decade.
