About the book: 1975 / Tolya Ustimov had already been working at the Marine Factory for six months, repairing ships. When almost all adults were called to the front, teenagers took their place. Important work and the hardships of the Leningrad blockade force him to grow up quickly, and at the age of sixteen, Komsomol member Ustimov becomes a foreman of ship assemblers. The writer's first major work of fiction (1955).