The article continues a series of archive material publications, dealing with the 40th anniversary of the 1968 events. The preceding article in this series was a chronicle of the student unrest in Europe, published in No 4, 2008, of this journal. The author presents some facts characterizing youth and student movement at the end of Khrushchev’s thaw in provincial Russian cities: Vladimir, Gorky, Saratov, Ryazan, and Sverdlovsk. Besides that, the publication contains notes by those who as young people were somehow involved in these historical events. Interviewing active participants and witnesses of «the revolutionary 1968» the author attempts to compare the specifics of the events in Europe and in Russia. Prepared by E.N. Penskaya