About the book: 2022 / Based on real events. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, eighteen-year-old Zhenya Anufriev is eager to go to the front. After a strict selection, he ends up serving in the newly created Special Group of NKVD troops, where recruits are trained for sabotage and reconnaissance work behind enemy lines. On critical days for the country, the detachment fights on the most dangerous lines - near Klin and Dmitrov, prepares defensive positions in Moscow itself... Gradually, the unfired “green” boys - Anufriev and his comrades - become experienced fighters. Luck accompanies the detachment until in January 1942 the soldiers find themselves in front of the Sukhinichi railway junction fortified by the Germans...Strategic plans, successes and miscalculations of the command, the cunning of the enemy, the exploits of soldiers and commanders - war as it really is. The authenticity of the events of our recent history.