My Grandfather — Dmitry Alekseevich Borodin is a personal family memoir about a man whose life became part of the memory of an entire district, school, and generation.

The author recalls his grandfather, Dmitry Alekseevich Borodin — a World War II veteran, history teacher, and long-serving principal of School No. 7 in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. Through childhood memories, family stories, and vivid episodes from the past, the book creates the portrait of a strict, fair, strong, and deeply humane man who devoted his life to education and to the people around him.

This is a book about family memory, Donbas, the Soviet school system, the postwar generation, the dignity of ordinary people, and the inheritance carried by a family name. A story about one grandfather becomes a tribute to a whole generation of simple heroic people who built the world around them not with words, but with actions.