About the book: 2015 / In the book, the author talks about the difficult service on ships of the Marine Space Fleet, ocean voyages, and meetings with interesting people. He talks with great love about his parents, who worked in the village - honest and hardworking people; recalls with sadness his half-starved wartime childhood; about the years of study at a military school, about the beginning of an independent life - serving on the ships of the IFF, which proudly carried the flag of our country across the seas and oceans. The author reflects on the fate of his fellow soldiers and the fate of our Motherland.