About the book: 2005 / About the author: Vladimir Konstantinovich Zyuskin is a professional journalist, poet. He worked in Siberia, the Urals, Ukraine, Sakhalin - in the editorial offices of newspapers and magazines. Author of the poetry collection "Gon". In 1986, he began working with G. A. Khalturin, a former battalion commander, chairman of the council of veterans of the Ural Anti-Tank Brigade. This is how a documentary-fiction story about the combat path of the brigade and its people appeared, based on archival documents and memories of direct participants in the events. In preparing the book, memories of brigade veterans were used; materials from the fund of the 8th OIPT - 30th OIPTA brigade from the archives of the USSR Ministry of Defense; and also Zhilin P.A. The Great Patriotic War: A brief historical sketch. M., 1970.