About the book: 1986 / Viktor Ivanov, a naval officer, survived the siege of Leningrad at the age of ten, participated as a full-fledged fighter in the defense of the city on the Neva, and at the end of the war he entered to the newly organized Leningrad Nakhimov Naval School. The documentary accuracy of the notes, the use, along with personal impressions, of materials from military archives, stories about the first students of the Nakhimov school - all this makes it possible to feel the pulse of our time, its connection with the heroic past - the Great Patriotic War.