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Three quarters of the book consist of writings translated from a volume in Russian: ``Kolmogorov in remembrance'' (A. N. Shiryaev (ed.), ``Nauka'', Moskva, 1993). Most extensive (87~p.) is a survey by \textit{A. N. Shiryaev}, ``Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (April 25, 1903 to October 20, 1987). A biographical sketch of his life and creative paths''. This sketch is interwoven with the explanation of Kolmogorov's work together with his precursor's work and advances made by his successors. All this follows a chronological scheme: Childhood and school years (1903--1920), The years as student and graduate student (1920--1925, 1925--1929), The thirties, The forties, The fifties, The sixties, The seventies and eighties (1970--October 20, 1987), Epilogue. Kolmogorov's students are listed: 15 academicians, 53 doctors of sciences, research collaborators. The titles, prices, elections to memberships awarded to Kolmogorov are reproduced in chronological order. From the same volume the following articles of Kolmogorov's students-academicians are selected for the translation: V. I. Arnol'd ``On A. N. Kolmogorov'', S. M. Nikolskiĭ ``In memory of A. N. Kolmogorov''. Also P. L. Ul'yanov's reminiscenses ``The influence of Andreĭ Nikolaevich Kolmogorov on my life'' are included. Some articles are taken from the volume ``Mathematics and its historical development'' [\textit{V. A. Uspenski} (ed), ``Nauka'', Moskva (1991; Zbl 0752.01034)]. It is known that there was a long-time friendship between P. S. Aleksandrov and Kolmogorov. Two of them were published before in [\textit{P. S. Aleksandrov}, ``A few words on A. N. Kolmogorov'', Usp. Mat. Nauk 38, No. 4, 7--9 (1983); English transl. in Russ. Math. Surv. 38, No. 4, 5--7 (1983; Zbl 0539.01018) and \textit{A. N. Kolmogorov}, ``Memories of P. S. Aleksandrov'', Usp. Mat. Nauk 41, No. 6, 225--246 (1986); English transl. in Russ. Math. Surv. 41, 225--246 (1986; Zbl 0624.01010)]. Shared experiences are supplemented by quotations from letters, as they visited mathematical centers in Germany, France and the United States in the early 1930's. The last article in the book is the English translation of A. N. Kolmogorov's ``Newton and contemporary mathematical thought'', first printed in 1946 in Russian and then in the journal Mat. Shkole 1982, No. 6, 58--64 (1982). The large Bibliography consists of the following parts: I. General list of the main publications by A. N. Kolmogorov (given by the years 1921 to 1993), II. Encyclopedia articles by Kolmogorov, III.--VII. Articles by Kolmogorov in the journals \textit{Matematika v Shkole} and \textit{Kvant}, on the theory of poetry and the statistics of text, on popular science, VIII. Addresses at meeting of the Moscow Mathematical Society, IX. Contents of Selected Works of Kolmogorov, Vols. I--III, X. Publications about Kolmogorov, XI. Publications cited in the biographical sketch. The book is illustrated by many photos, also several additional photographs are first reproduced here.