[Authors] Apushkinskaya D. E., Nazarov A. I. [Title] Keep the traces of Man in a sand of time! [AMS Subj-class] 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies [Abstract] The year 2017 marked the 130th anniversary of the prominent Russian mathematician Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov. We invite the reader to look at Vladimir Ivanovich through the eyes of his contemporaries. [Comments] LaTeX, Russian, 12 pp. [Contact e-mail] al.il.nazarov@gmail.com