The book "gEkachapists" is devoted to the biographies of people who have forever entered the history of the USSR as members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP). They were very different personalities, but in some ways, undoubtedly, outstanding and talented, who managed to reach the highest state positions. They were united by their participation in an attempt to save the Soviet Union from collapse, but the failure of the State Emergency Committee only accelerated the collapse of the country and thus entailed consequences of a world-historical scale.Maxim Artemyev, a writer, journalist, historian, at one time worked as a press secretary for Vasily Starodubtsev, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee, which prompted interest in this topic and prompted the writing of the presented book, the second in a row by the author of the "ZhZL" series.