About the book: 2005 / Does the Sevastopol Fortress have its own secret? Of course, there is, and even more than one. But, on the other hand, what secrets could there be after L. Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol Stories” and dozens of monographs by official Soviet historians from Tarle to Vaneev? Alas, all these solid works only darkened the picture of the two defenses of Sevastopol. Dozens of important questions still remain unclear. Could he? for example, did the Russian fleet in 1854 attack an Anglo-French squadron overloaded with landing forces, or was the self-sinking of our ships inevitable? Is that true? that Admiral Oktyabrsky fought throughout 1941 with the Italian fleet, which did not leave the Mediterranean Sea? Colonel General Manstein claimed that during the invasion of German troops into Crimea he did not have a single tank, and in June 1942, only one tank battalion took part in the last assault on Sevastopol. Soviet historians, on the contrary, speak in both cases of tank armadas of 400-500 or more tanks. Who is right? Who planned to start a chemical war in Crimea in 1942? How, in the post-war period, an underground city emerged in Sevastopol with cruise missile launch sites, submarine bases, and a number of enterprises from ship repair yards and power plants to bakeries and hospitals?