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"In the trenches of Stalingrad" - the story of V.P. Nekrasov. Front-line officer, holder of the Medal For Courage and the Order of the Red Star, Captain V.P. Nekrasov began work on the story in 1944, in a hospital, where he was in connection with a second wound. Nekrasov took part in the defense of Stalingrad from beginning to end.

By the fall of 1945, the manuscript entitled In the Trenches of Stalingrad was completed, and in 1946 it was published as the novel Stalingrad in the Znamya magazine. The leadership of the Writers' Union met him with hostility. A.A. Fadeev, the head of the Union, personally deleted Stalingrad from the list of works submitted for the Stalin Prize. Stalin, however, did not approve this decision: in 1947 the novel was awarded the main state award and was published in a series of books published by the Sovetsky Pisatel publishing house for the 30th anniversary October revolution... After the award was awarded, the story - now it is a story - "In the trenches of Stalingrad" is published throughout the country and is republished by most publishing houses with a total circulation of several million copies, translated into 36 languages.

"In the trenches of Stalingrad" is a landmark work for all Soviet literature about the Great Patriotic War: in 10-15 years "lieutenant prose" will appear, the beginning of which was laid by V. Nekrasov; 40 years later, among the direct forerunners of V. Grossman's novel Life and Fate, the critic will name the story "In the trenches of Stalingrad."

For the hero of the story, the regimental engineer Kerzhentsev, the same as for V.P. Nekrasov, Stalingrad began at the Crossroads of the Summer Retreat, under the bombs of the first raid on the city, in desperate autumn contracts. The front-line experience of a novice prose writer was somewhat different from the experience of already established writers, for whom the front is an object of painting. For the military officer Nekrasov, this is a difficult daily routine, in which he is inexorably included.

Nekrasov stubbornly argued the reliability of intelligence in spite of the general attitude of those years: the intellectual was at best assigned the role of a reflective individualist, if not an outright coward. Nekrasov understood intelligence as a combination of intelligence, nobility, fearlessness, openness, the ability to compassion. The simplicity of Kerzhentsev's narration is the simplicity of genuine intelligence. His speech goes well with the businesslike, sharp-sighted detail of an experienced front-line soldier. Military terms, army observations are intertwined without pressure into free conversation. The artistic credibility of "Trenches" is predetermined by the fact that, synthesizing characters, Nekrasov writes only about what he himself knows. The story "In the trenches of Stalingrad" is free of official optimism, its heroes do not feel like pawns in the hands of an omniscient strategist. The writer stubbornly believes in a person's ability to wage a long unequal battle, and, perhaps, it was precisely such a view of the participants in the battle that informed the story of that reserve of vitality, which made it a kind of reference point for future writers.

Nekrasov has his own idea of \u200b\u200bbattle, life, death, he does not reject the instinct “There are no thoughts. The brain has shut down. What remains is instinct - the animal desire for life and expectation. Not even an expectation, but something that cannot be explained in words ... ".

Nekrasov was the first in our literature to say about the moral responsibility of a commander who sends soldiers to their death - he spoke about the price of blood. This topic will later become especially close to V. Bykov, G. Ya. Baklanov, Yu. V. Bondarev.

The action begins in July 1942 with a retreat near Oskol. The Germans approached Voronezh, and the regiment departs from the newly dug defensive fortifications without a single shot, and the first battalion, led by battalion commander Shiryaev, remains for cover. The main character of the story, Lieutenant Kerzhentsev, remains to help the battalion commander. Having spent the prescribed two days, the first battalion is also removed. On the way, they unexpectedly meet the liaison headquarters and chemist Kerzhentsev's friend Igor Svidersky with the news that the regiment is defeated, it is necessary to change the route and go to join with it, and the Germans are only ten kilometers away. They walk another day until they settle in dilapidated barns. There the Germans find them. The battalion is on the defensive. Lots of losses. Shiryaev with fourteen fighters leaves, and Kerzhentsev with Valega, an orderly, Igor, Sedykh and the liaison of Lazarenko's headquarters remain to cover them. Lazarenko is killed, and the rest safely leave the barn and catch up with their own. This is not difficult, as the parts retreating in disarray stretch along the road. They are trying to look for their own: regiment, division, army, but this is impossible. Retreat. Crossing

Through Don. So they get to Stalingrad.

In Stalingrad, they stay with Marya Kuzminichna, the sister of the former Igor's company commander in the reserve regiment, and heal a long-forgotten peaceful life. Conversations with the hostess and her husband Nikolai Nikolayevich, tea with jam, walks with the neighbor's girl Lyusya, who reminds Yuri Kerzhentsev of his beloved, also Lyusa, swimming in the Volga, the library - all this is a real peaceful life. Igor pretends to be a sapper and, together with Kerzhentsev, ends up in the reserve, in a special purpose group. Their job is to prepare the industrial facilities of the city for the explosion. But peaceful life was unexpectedly interrupted by an air raid and a two-hour bombing - the German launched an offensive on Stalingrad.

Sappers are sent to a tractor plant near Stalingrad. There is a long, painstaking preparation of the plant for the explosion. Several times a day we have to repair a chain that was torn during the next shelling. In the intervals between shifts, Igor is arguing with Georgy Akimovich, an electrical engineer at the CHP. Georgy Akimovich is outraged by the Russians' inability to fight: “The Germans have traveled from Berlin to Stalingrad in cars, but we are in jackets and overalls in the trenches with a three-line model of the 91st year”. Georgy Akimovich believes that only a miracle can save the Russians. Kerzhentsev recalls the recent conversation of the soldiers about their land, "greasy as butter, about breads that cover you with their heads." He doesn't know what to call it. Tolstoy called this "the latent warmth of patriotism." “Perhaps this is the miracle that Georgy Akimovich is waiting for, a miracle stronger than German organization and tanks with black crosses.”

The city has been bombed for ten days, probably nothing is left of it, and there is still no order to blast. Without waiting for the order to blast, the sappers of the reserve are sent to a new assignment - to the front headquarters, to the engineering department, on the other side of the Volga. At the headquarters, they receive appointments, and Kerzhentsev has to part with Igor. He was sent to the 184th division. He meets his first battalion and crosses with him to the other side. The entire shore is engulfed in flames.

The battalion immediately engages in battle. The battalion commander dies, and Kerzhentsev takes command of the battalion. At his disposal are the fourth and fifth companies and a platoon of foot scouts under the command of Sergeant Major Chumak. Its position is the Metiz plant. Here they stay for a long time. The day begins with a morning cannonade. Then “sabantui” or attack. September passes, October begins.

The battalion is being transferred to more open positions between the “Metiz” and the end of the ravine on Mamaev. The regiment commander, Major Borodin, enlists Kerzhentsev for sapper work and the construction of a dugout to help his sapper lieutenant Lisagor. There are only thirty-six men in the battalion instead of the expected four hundred, and the area, small for a normal battalion, presents a serious problem. Soldiers begin to dig trenches, sappers set mines. But then it turns out that the position must be changed: a colonel, division commander comes to the command post and orders to occupy the hill where the enemy machine guns are located. Scouts will be given to help, and Chuikov promised "corn workers". The time before the attack drags on slowly. Kerzhentsev exposes political dealers who have come with a check from the command post and, unexpectedly for himself, goes into the attack.

They took the hill, and it turned out to be not very difficult: twelve of the fourteen fighters survived. They sit in a German dugout with the commander Karnaukhov and the scout commander Chumak, Kerzhentsev's recent adversary, and discuss the battle. But then it turns out that they are cut off from the battalion. They take up a perimeter defense. Suddenly, an orderly Kerzhentsev Valega, who remained at the command post, appears in the dugout, since he twisted his leg three days before the attack. He brings a stew and a note from the senior adjutant Kharlamov: the attack should be at 4.00.

The attack fails. More and more people are dying - from wounds and direct hits. There is no hope of surviving, but theirs still break through to them. Shiryaev swoops in on Kerzhentsev, who was appointed battalion commander instead of Kerzhentsev. Kerzhentsev surrenders the battalion and moves to Lisagor. The first time they sit back, go to visit Chumak, Shiryaev, Karnaukhov. For the first time in a month and a half of meeting, Kerzhentsev talks about life with the commander of his former battalion Farber. This is the type of intellectual in war, an intellectual who is not very good at commanding a company entrusted to him, but feels responsible for everything that he did not learn to do in time.

The nineteenth of November at Kerzhentsev's name day. A holiday is planned, but is thwarted by the general offensive along the entire front. Having prepared the command post for Major Borodin, Kerzhentsev releases the sappers with Lisagor ashore, and he himself, on the orders of the major, goes to his former battalion. Shiryaev figured out how to take the message moves, and the major agrees with the military cunning that will save people. But the chief of staff, Captain Abrosimov, insists on a head-on attack. He appears at Shiryaev's command post after Kerzhentsev and sends the battalion into the attack, not listening to arguments.

Kerzhentsev goes on the attack with the soldiers. They immediately fall under the bullets and lie in the craters. After nine hours in the funnel, Kerzhentsev manages to get to his own. The battalion lost twenty-six men, almost half. Karnaukhov died. Wounded, he ends up in the medical battalion Shiryaev. Farber takes command of the battalion. He was the only commander who did not take part in the attack. Abrosimov kept it with him.

The next day, the trial of Abrosimov took place. Major Borodin says at the trial that he trusted his chief of staff, but he deceived the regiment commander, "he exceeded his power, and people died." Then a few more people speak. Abrosimov believes that he was right, only a massive attack could take the tanks. “Combats protect people, so they don't like attacks. Bucky could only be taken by attack. And he is not to blame for the fact that people treated this dishonestly and were cowardly. " And then Farber rises. He cannot speak, but he knows that those who died in this attack were not afraid. “Courage is not in going with a bare chest on a machine gun” ... The order was “not to attack, but to take over”. The method invented by Shiryaev would have saved people, but now they are not ...

Abrosimov was demoted to the penal battalion, and he leaves without saying goodbye to anyone. And Kerzhentsev is now calm about Farber. Long-awaited tanks arrive at night. Kerzhentsev is trying to make up for the missed name days, but again the offensive. Shiryaev, now the chief of staff, who escaped from the medical battalion, comes running, the battle begins. In this battle, Kerzhentsev is wounded, and he ends up in a medical battalion. From the medical battalion, he returns to Stalingrad, "home", meets Sedykh, learns that Igor is alive, is going to see him in the evening and again does not have time: they are being transferred for battles with the Northern group. There is an offensive.

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"In the trenches of Stalingrad" by Nekrasov in summary

Viktor Nekrasov describes in his story the events of the second half of 1942, when our troops retreated from Kharkov, from the Oskol River to Stalingrad, in order to fortify there and defend the city. It was in those days that JV Stalin signed the famous order No. 227 with the appeal "Not a step back."

Lieutenant Yuri Kerzhentsev - an architect in pre-war life, becomes a sapper at the front. On his behalf, V. Nekrasov describes his own memories of the retreat to Stalingrad. The author also tells us about ordinary people met by the hero at the front, and describes the memories of a peaceful life, which now seems so distant and unreal.

Read the summary In the trenches of Stalingrad Nekrasov

The events described in the story began in July 1942. The German army is on the outskirts of Voronezh and our troops have to retreat. The first battalion, commanded by the battalion commander Shiryaev, was ordered to stay to cover those leaving. Lieutenant Yuri Kerzhentsev is attached to the rest. Two days later, having completed its task, the first battalion also leaves the fortifications near the Oskol River.

On the way, Kerzhentsev meets with his friend Igor Svidersky, who reports that the Germans are 10 km away from them, it is necessary to change direction. Soon, the battalion reaches the dilapidated barns and stops in them. Here they are covered by the Germans. The battalion commander, having taken 14 soldiers, leaves, while Kerzhentsev with four others remains for cover. One of them dies, the rest manage to leave the barn. They are trying to catch up with their own. There are many units of the retreating army on the road, they cannot find their regiment. So they get to the Don, cross it and reach Stalingrad.

Stalingrad, at that time, was a peaceful city. Yuri and his comrades stay with the relatives of his former commander. And for a while they get a respite from the war. Unhurried conversations with the owners over tea and jam, swimming in the Volga and evening walks with a neighbor's girl - all this is suddenly interrupted by the bombing. The offensive of the German army on Stalingrad began.

Igor and a friend, who were in the reserve by sappers, had to prepare industrial facilities for destruction. With the beginning of the offensive, they were sent to the tractor plant. Together with them there is Georgy Akimovich, an electrical engineer of the CHPP. This is a philosophical person who loves to reason, but rather pessimistic. He is outraged by the unpreparedness of our army for war, he believes that the Germans have all the conditions, despite the fact that they are acting on foreign territory. In his opinion, the victory of our army can only bring a miracle. Yuri argues with him in between shifts, he cannot accept the point of view of the engineer. Kerzhentsev remembers the soldiers' conversations about the land, the fields sown with grain. This is something that ordinary Russian people hold dear. And, probably, this is love for the Motherland, one that is capable of creating the miracle of victory.

The bombing has been going on for ten days now, the plant is fully prepared for the explosion, but there is no order to destroy it. Sappers were sent to the other side, to the engineering department of the front headquarters. There they receive new appointments and Yuri breaks up with a friend. Kerzhentsev was sent to the 184th division. Arriving there, he discovers the first battalion, with which he last saw near the barns. Together with his comrades, he crosses the river and immediately falls into a fierce battle. The battalion commander dies and Kerzhentsev has to take command.

September and October pass day after day. Each morning begins with a cannonade followed by an attack. The heavily thinned battalion changes positions. They must take the hill, which they succeed, but the soldiers are cut off from their own.

On November 19, the day of Kerzhentsev's name day, a general offensive was announced along the entire front. Kerzhentsev and Shiryaev offer an idea of \u200b\u200bhow to accomplish the task and at the same time save people, but the chief of staff, Captain Abrosimov, does not consider their arguments weighty and prefers to advance with a frontal attack. As a result, in the course of a difficult long battle, half of the battalion remains. Abrosimov was arrested, the command was transferred to Farber.

The next day, the trial of Abrosimov is taking place. The former chief of staff does not admit his mistake, he considers it wrong to take care of people and accuses the soldiers of dishonesty and cowardice in completing the task. But they object to him that this is not so. Both the dead and the survivors were not cowards, they acted as ordered. But if the trick proposed by Shiryayayev had been applied, many more soldiers would have remained alive. It is Abrosimov who is to blame for their death. The former chief of staff was demoted and sent to the penal battalion.

Another offensive, Yuri is wounded. After being treated in a medical battalion, he returns to defend Stalingrad. The war continues.

Through this work, the author reveals to us the essence of the word patriotism. Not the one with words or with a flag on the square, but the real one, when people silently go into battle and die for their Motherland, for their people. The author tells us about the responsibility of contemporaries for their comrades, the need to properly think over their actions and words in advance. And also to love and appreciate every moment of your life, because no one knows how long it will last.

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main characters

Nekrasov leads the story in this story from the first person. The main character of the work - Lieutenant Kerzhentsev - is the author himself, who was the defender of Stalingrad. This story is the author's front-line diary.

Minor characters

Igor Svidersky (friend of Kerzhentsev)

Marya Kuzminichna (sister of the former company commander Igor)

Nikolai Nikolaevich (husband of Marya Kuzminichna)

Lucy (the girl who lived next door to Marya Kuzminichna)

Georgy Akimovich (electrical engineer of the CHP)

major Borodin, Captain Maksimov, Battalion Commander Shiryaev, Commander of Marine Corps Scouts Sergeant Major Chumak, Infantryman Volegov ("Valega"), Intelligent, Mathematician Farber, Miner from Suchan Karnaukhov, Headquarters Officer Abrosimov, opportunist Kaluzhny, deserters and soldiers Kvaast Sidor

Part 1

July 1942. After the retreat of Soviet troops near Oskol, the Germans got close to Voronezh. Lieutenant Kerzhentsev's regiment departs from the newly built fortifications for defense without a single shot being fired. The first battalion, commanded by the battalion commander Shiryaev, should cover the retreat. Kerzhentsev also remains, helping to mine the area. The lieutenant recalls the pre-war life in Kiev and his friends, many of whom are no longer alive.

Two days later, the first battalion also leaves the position. On the way, Shiryaev and Kerzhentsev meet the liaison headquarters of Igor Svidersky. He reports that the regiment was almost completely destroyed by the Germans. An urgent need to change the route. You should take the direction to connect with the remnants of the shelf.

The Germans are somewhere nearby. Having overcome about thirty kilometers in a day, the retreating ones are located in dilapidated sheds. Here they are caught by the Germans and forced to join the battle. The barns are gradually surrounding. Shiryaev with fourteen fighters leaves, leaving Kerzhentsev with an orderly Volegov (Valega), Svidersky, Lazarenko and Sedykh to cover. They shoot all the cartridges at the Germans and also leave the barn. When retreating, Lazarenko is mortally wounded from a mine explosion. He is hastily buried with his hands in a hole.

Kerzhentsev and his comrades safely leave the place of battle and are drawn into the units retreating in disorder. They try unsuccessfully to find someone from their regiment. Moving from one settlement to another, the fighters gradually reach Stalingrad.

In Stalingrad, Svidersky is looking for Marya Kuzminichna, the sister of his former company commander in the reserve regiment. In her house, the main characters briefly return to their already forgotten peaceful life. They have a leisurely conversation with the hostess and her husband, drink tea with jam, take a break from the war. Kerzhentsev walks with his neighbor Lyusya, who reminds him of a girl left behind in Kiev.

Svidersky and Kerzhentsev introduce themselves as sappers and end up in a special task force. Their task is to prepare the explosion of industrial urban facilities in the event of the capture of Stalingrad. Peaceful life in the city is suddenly interrupted by an air raid. The bombing raid lasts about two hours. This means that the Germans are launching an offensive against Stalingrad.

Sappers are sent to a tractor plant on the outskirts of the city. There they conduct a long, laborious preparation of the object for the explosion. Several times a day it is necessary to restore the chain, which is torn from shelling.

Between shifts, Svidersky often argues with Georgy Akimovich, an electrical engineer for a thermal power plant that will need to be blown up. The latter is outraged that the Russians do not know how to fight. Georgy Akimovich believes that only a miracle can save the Soviet people. Kerzhentsev, listening to the arguing, recalls the conversation of ordinary soldiers about their native land. It contains true patriotism that will allow you to defeat the enemy.

Stalingrad has been bombed continuously for ten days. This means that the army is still holding the enemy on the outskirts of the city. No order to detonate objects is received. Reserve sappers are sent to the front headquarters, where they receive new assignments. Kerzhentsev and Volegov are forced to say goodbye to Svidersky and Sedykh.

Kerzhentsev was sent to the one hundred and eighty-fourth division as deputy regiment commander for engineering. He meets the first battalion and goes with him to the other side of the Volga. The fighters immediately join the battle. Kerzhentsev takes command and successfully repels several German attacks. By the end of the day, it becomes known that the battalion commander Klishentsov was killed. Kerzhentsev was temporarily appointed battalion commander.

Part 2

Under the command of Kerzhentsev, the fourth and fifth companies, as well as a platoon of scouts led by Sergeant Major Chumak, are coming. Their task is to defend the Metiz plant. Each day begins with a cannonade followed by German bombers and attack aircraft. In between bombings, Kerzhenets's positions are attacked by infantry. The whole of September is in continuous fighting. The battalion is running out of ammunition, the number of wounded and killed is growing.

The battalion is transferred to a new position: between the plant and the end of the ravine on the Mamayev Kurgan. By this time, Kerzhentsev had only 36 fighters out of six hundred people. With great difficulty he manages to distribute the soldiers throughout the defensive sector and start mining the area. Kerzhentsev must help Lieutenant Lisagor in the sapper work.

Suddenly at night, Kerzhentsev receives an order from the division commander: stop mining and prepare to attack the fortified height on which the enemy machine guns are located. Before the operation, the German positions are "probed" by Chumak's scouts. Kerzhentsev rashly expels the "political officers" who have appeared there for checking from the command post and goes on the attack himself.

The hill can be easily captured. Kerzhentsev and Chumak begin hastily to prepare for the defense, but they suddenly learn that the height has been taken by the Germans into a "ring". A handful of people are cut off from the main forces. The orderly Valega comes to the hill alone, who remained at the command post, because three days before the battle he injured his leg. He brings stew and a note from Kharlamov, in which he promises to help soon.

People at the height suffer from a lack of ammunition, food and water. Only eleven people remain in the ranks. The first breakout attempt fails. There is no longer any hope of staying alive. Kerzhentsev and Chumak decide to defend themselves to the last.

When Kerzhenetsev no longer has the strength to shoot back, an old friend suddenly appears in front of him - Shiryaev. He was appointed battalion commander in his place and was able to break through to the hill. Shiryaev tells how he got under Stalingrad. Friends remember the dead comrades. Kerzhentsev surrenders command and moves back to Lisagor. At first, they do nothing. The main character is resting after the heroic defense of the hill. On the third day, sapper work begins. For the first time since they met, Kerzhentsev talks about life with the company commander of his former battalion, Farber.

In the second half of November, Kerzhentsev plans to celebrate his birthday. The holiday is disrupted due to the offensive along the entire front. According to the order, Kerzhentsev is sent to his former battalion. Kombat Shiryaev plans to seize the communication passages between the Soviet and German trenches. This will save many human lives. However, Chief of Staff Ambrosimov insists on a head-on attack. Threatening Shiryaev with a pistol, he actually sends people to certain death.

Kerzhentsev goes on the attack with the soldiers. Most are killed immediately by German machine gun fire. The main character manages to lie down in a funnel, in which he spends nine hours. Toward evening, Kerzhentsev miraculously reaches his trenches in two jerks. This senseless attack killed about half of the entire battalion. Shiryaev was seriously wounded. The new battalion commander is appointed by Farber, who did not even take part in the offensive.

At the trial, Abrosimov was sentenced to be sent to a penal battalion. He leaves without saying goodbye to anyone. At night, several Soviet tanks arrive to help the battalion. Kerzhentsev tries once again to celebrate the past name days, but again they announce preparations for the offensive. Shiryaev was appointed the new chief of staff. During the attack, Kerzhentsev is wounded and sent to the rear medical battalion.

After recovery, the main character returns to Stalingrad. He can't believe his eyes. The initiative is fully owned by the Soviet troops. The surrounded group of Germans is doomed. Kerzhentsev meets Sedykh, learns from him that Svidersky is fighting here. He's going to visit a friend tonight.

Kerzhentsev, Lisagor, Chumak and Valega celebrate a meeting in a destroyed house. Friends are proud of their homeland. They no longer doubt the defeat of Hitler. In the midst of the fun, a messenger from the headquarters comes running and informs that a general gathering is scheduled for the evening. In the morning it is planned to launch an offensive and put an end to the remnants of the encircled German army.

The work describes the very height of the Second World War. The summer of 1942 is passing and the enemy army has already managed to reach Voronezh, leaving only death and devastation on its way. War changes destinies and makes sometimes difficult decisions of the commanders of combat platoons. The protagonist of the entire book wakes up a young lieutenant Yura by the name of Kerzhentsev.

The story begins with the retreat of the Soviet army, the enemy got too close and the soldiers are forced to approach the outskirts of Stalingrad. After a series of enemy attacks, many of Kerzhentsev's battalion

They die, he manages to escape in company with Igor Svidersky, orderly Valega and Sedym. All of them safely get to a peaceful city, where everyone has the opportunity to relax and gain strength.

The young children are hospitably received by Igor's relatives, giving them the opportunity to enjoy a quiet life. Daily walks in the park, swimming in the river and sweet jam with tea, ends with the onset of an air raid. The Germans, having collected all the might of their army, launched an offensive on the majestic Stalingrad.

Yura, together with Igor, enter the service in a special assignment group. Their first

The task is to mine a large tractor plant, which, in the event of the capture of a nearby territory by the enemy, must be blown up.

Engineer Georgy Akimov is sent to help them, who loves to conduct philosophical conversations about the poor training of the Russian military, in comparison with the Germans. But few people pay attention to his words, the work is difficult and painstaking, and in their group there are only patriots who are ready to stand up for their homeland to the end.

The city has been living under bullets for the tenth day. A special-purpose soldier is sent on a new combat mission after canceling the order to blow up the tractor plant. Yuri says goodbye to his comrades and goes to a new service in his old detachment of the 184th division. The other side of the wide-water Volga awaits him, from where combat explosions are heard and tongues of flame are seen.

Without wasting a minute of precious time upon arrival, all the soldiers rush into battle with a battle cry. At one point, the battalion commander dies and, since Yuri Kerzhentsev is senior in rank, two companies of scouts are at his disposal at once. The battles are long and fierce opponents from both sides do not allow each other to relax, taking positions on the territory of the "Metiz" plant for battalions under the command of the protagonist, the first months of autumn pass here.

Attacking the enemy over and over again, Russian soldiers are forced to work for three, as there are sorely lack of fighters. Moving from one position to another, setting, mini and digging trenches, Yuri Kerzhentsev's team miraculously manages to work in full combat strength.

Everyone manages to rest a little only after capturing the enemy's hill, where machine guns are installed. Everyone goes on the attack indiscriminately, and after a couple of very simple hours, the guys sit in the fascists' dugout eating stew and cheerfully tell jokes. At this moment, the boundaries between commanders and subordinates are erased, grievances are forgotten and rivals become allies. But this is just a moment of silence, the new attack will be a couple of hours before dawn.

The next military offensive of the Russian soldiers failed, many were wounded and killed. The leadership decides that Kerzhenets is to blame for everything and order him to transfer his command to Shiryaev. The company commander Chumakov takes Yuri to his place, taking advantage of the lull at the front, they have sincere conversations about life without war. The protagonist understands how comrades he is worried about the life of each of his soldiers, it is hard for him to be an intelligent person to bear such a burden of responsibility.

November comes and on the birthday of Yuri Kerzhentsev on the 19th, a major offensive is planned on important positions of the German invaders. This attack became the main dispute between the battalion commanders and the headquarters, wanting to save as many people as Abrosimov, goes against the order of the leadership and loses many people in battle.

He participates in the battle and Yuri miraculously escapes after spending several days in a ravine under bullets. He meets with the surviving comrades of his battalion already at the medical headquarters. A couple of days later, Abrosimov was tried for disobeying orders, many were defending him, but nothing could be done and the former commander was demoted to a penal battalion.

But the war continues until the long-awaited victory for many more difficult years and difficult decisions. The new battle begins with good news that in support of the arrived tanks, captured by the reliable all participants in past events, rushed into the attack. This time, Yuri Kerzhentsev was wounded and was taken to the hospital on a stretcher.

Having passed into himself and after a couple of days, the tired soldier is sent home to Stalingrad. Here he will not stay for long, having managed to find out that his comrades Igor and Sedoy are alive, Yuri goes on a new offensive as part of the northern group.