The article is dedicated to the memory of Yury Nikolaevich Stolyarov, an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist and pedagogue, facilitator of science and higher education, the largest specialist in the field of library science, documentology, book science and computer science, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation, President of the Library Science Department of the International Academy of Informatization, full member of the Russian Academy of Humanities, Honorary Professor of Moscow State Institute of Culture and Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture. The memoirs and reflections on Yury N. Stolyarov as a mentor and a friend are presented, and the authors' personal impressions of this in many ways amazing personality are given.