"Smell of Rain" - a book about our great contemporary, the true pride of Ukrainian and world humanities. Leonid Vladimirovich Ushkalov (1956-2019) - Doctor of Philology, Professor of Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, author of hundreds of brilliant works on the history of Ukrainian literature and philosophy, the greatest researcher of the life and work of GS Skovoroda. The book includes memoirs of the scientist's wife and son, fragments of epistolary heritage, materials from the family archive, selected places from correspondence with friends and colleagues, works of various genres dedicated to this outstanding representative of the Kharkiv philological school.