About the book: year / In many books, our contemporary finds himself in a different era and begins transformations there, which often does not fit well with his personal experience and available means. Here in another The sailors and marines of the Great Patriotic War fell into the era under the leadership of the hero of the “Crimean two-step”, the young 28-year-old Vice Admiral Matveev. Three ships of the Northern Fleet, including a docking vessel with a ship repair shop on board, decent supplies of spare parts, an oxygen expander and vacuum electric furnaces. Along with it moved a supply ship with large freezers, a supply of food, ammunition and fuel, and one of the best types of destroyers of the Second World War, the Fletcher. And most importantly, people who know how to fight and build, bonded by the discipline of the 1st Marine Corps of the Northern Fleet, the experience of numerous landings and the experience of industrialization of the 30s. And having a common goal: to return to the USSR. PS The novel was completed in mid-April 2014, when too many people thought that the return would take place.