Evgeny Dolmatovsky, future front-line correspondent and poet of his generation. Wounded in the head and arm in the Uman pocket, captivity, daring escape.
Return to duty in January 1942 with the rank of battalion commissar in the division of Alexander Rodimtsev, a legendary hero Stalingrad. Personal presence at the signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Germany. The poem “Beloved city’ - a poem (and not just a text), because the pilots were gods - conquerors of the skies.