About the book: 1963 / Soviet people accomplished many heroic deeds during the civil war. The names of national heroes Shchors, Chapaev, Zheleznyakov and many others are well known to every Soviet person. The story “Vanya the Communist” reveals another page in the history of our state. Its heroes - Nikolai Markin, Vsevolod Vishnevsky and others - are real people. Their exploits during the battles for the liberation of the Kama region from the White Guards are described in this book. Its author, Oleg Konstantinovich Selyankin, was born in 1917, in Tyumen. He received his secondary education in Chusovoy, then graduated from the Higher Naval School. M. V. Frunze. During the Great Patriotic War he fought in the Marine Corps, on ships of the Volga and Dnieper flotillas. He was awarded several orders and medals. The first collection of stories, “Friends and Fellow Soldiers,” was published in Perm in 1951. After this, many of his books were published, including the novel-duology “School of Winners”, the story “On the Captain’s Bridge”, for young people “Keep it up!” and others. Since 1958, member of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR. Artist Yu. Likhachev