About the book: year / “Attention! The blue cruiser is heading to Sevastopol! Such reports were often transmitted by fascist reconnaissance aircraft to their airfields in the spring and summer of 1942. And dozens of Junkers took to the air to intercept the Soviet ship. Enemy torpedo bombers and boats set out on its course in advance. But nothing could stop the ship from breaking into the besieged city again and again. The “Blue Cruiser” is the leader of the destroyers “Tashkent”, a ship that has become almost legendary on the Black Sea. In all battles, the leader was commanded by Captain 3rd Rank Vasily Nikolaevich Eroshenko, now a retired rear admiral. His memoirs tell about the military campaigns of the glorious ship, about the heroic crew of the Tashkent, whose exploits will forever go down in the history of the Soviet Navy.