The book contains interesting archival materials about the life and activities of the People's Commissar of the Navy and the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy (1939–1947, 1951–1956) Hero of the Soviet Union Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov - an outstanding military sailor, under whose leadership The Navy promptly and fully armed met and with dignity passed the most difficult tests of the most terrible war in the history of mankind. Memoirs about him by his wife Vera Nikolaevna Kuznetsova and his associates, some statements by N.G. Kuznetsov from notebooks, photographs from the family archive. The publication is of interest both to specialists and military historians, and to a wide range of readers.