About the book: year / Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin - Soviet and Russian sailor, translator, marine writer, author of numerous magazine and newspaper publications, essays, as well as books on historical and maritime topics. He made a huge contribution to the popularization of maritime affairs. Born in 1930 into a family of hereditary sailors. From the age of ten, about seven years, from the spring of 1941 to 1947, he lived in the United States of America. His father Nikolai Alekseevich Skryagin, captain 2nd rank, was appointed naval attaché at the USSR Embassy in Washington on March 12, 1941, by order of the People's Commissar of the Navy N.G. Kuznetsov. Returning to the USSR, Lev Skryagin graduated from the Leningrad Naval Preparatory School and sailed as a sailor on the fishing trawl fleet in the North. Fluent in English, he was a professional translator from the age of 17. In 1961, the Morskoy Transport publishing house published Lev Skryagin’s first book, “In the Footsteps of Marine Disasters.” Later it went through 6 reprints abroad. I sailed for 13 months with John Kennedy Finlay, the captain-extra master of the world's largest liners, and learned a lot from him. During this time, I wrote down four notebooks of my dictionary of maritime jargon. Subsequently, as a representative of the All-Union Association “Sudoimport” and a translator, he was repeatedly involved in working with foreign delegations and traveling abroad. He worked in countries such as the USA, England, Greece, Kuwait, Cuba, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan. From 1966 to 1980, he made three voyages around the world on ships sold for export to V/O Sudoimport. Visited 26 countries, 74 ports. At one time he was a special correspondent for the magazines “Around the World”, “Technology for Youth”, “Marine Fleet”. In addition to 15 books, he published more than 500 essays. The most famous books by Lev Skryagin are “Anchors” and “Sea Knots”, which have been reprinted several times and are still used as teaching aids. In recent years he lived with his wife in Moscow, receiving a modest pension. The pets were five cats with naval nicknames. Close friends occasionally helped financially. Almost until his last days he continued to work, compiling a fundamental work - a dictionary of English maritime idioms, sections of which were published in small portions in the monthly Marine Fleet. Completed and published in 2013 the book: “English-Russian Dictionary of Marine Idioms and Jargon” Nikolai Kalanov. As a result of a serious illness, he completely lost his voice. Died November 21, 2000. Contents:1. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: 300 disasters that shook the world 2. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Sunken treasures 3. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: In the wake of sea disasters 4. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: The last SOS "Volturno" 5. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Treasures of lost ships 6. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Secrets of sea disasters 7. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Man overboard 8. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Book about anchors 9. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Sea knots 10. Lev Nikolaevich Skryagin: Sailboats of the world