About the book: 1976 / Publisher's abstract: In Sevastopol, on the site of the former building of the House of the Red Army, destroyed by a fascist bomb, there is a wall of marble on which the names of ships are carved , formations, units of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet and the Primorsky Army, famous for their exploits in the battles for the hero city. Among them are the submarines L-4, M-60, M-33... They were led to fight the enemy by fearless commanders Dmitry Ivanovich Surov, Illarion Fedorovich Fartushny, Andrei Vasilyevich Krestovsky... How many of them, who honorably carried out the order of the Motherland and those who did not return to their native harbor... The book “Torpedo Fan” tells about the courage, devotion to duty of the Black Sea submariners, their immortal exploits in the days of the heroic defense of Odessa and Sevastopol, in the fight against the Nazi invaders in the vastness of the Black Sea. Its author, the untimely death of retired captain of the second rank Alexander Grigorievich Markelov, sailed as a navigator on submarines from the first days of the war and was a participant in many military campaigns. During those terrible years, he kept diary entries, which formed the basis of the “Torpedo Fan”».