Valentin Pikul’s book “Requiem for the PQ-17 Caravan” is dedicated to one of the dramatic episodes of World War II - the death of an allied caravan in the northern latitudes. This work, which the author himself called a documentary tragedy, can confidently be called the writer’s calling card. Valentin Pikul showed himself in this book as a documentary writer who does not gloss over reality, but seeks the truth.