Ovidy Aleksandrovich Gorchakov is a legendary Soviet intelligence officer, hero-saboteur, translator of Stalin and Khrushchev, writer and screenwriter. The same military intelligence officer described by Yulian Semenov in the story “Major Whirlwind,” and his other hero Stirlitz borrowed some qualities from Gorchakov. Ovid Alexandrovich was born in 1924 in Odessa. In 1930–1935 he studied in New York and London, where his father, a diplomat, was sent to serve. During the Great Patriotic War, he commanded a reconnaissance group behind enemy lines in Poland and Germany. Poland awarded Ovid Gorchakov the country's highest award - for the rescue and evacuation from enemy lines of the top of the Polish military government, led by Marshal Marian Spychalski. During the war, he was twice nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but was never awarded... Ovid Gorchakov’s documentary story “Maxim Doesn’t Get in Touch” was written based on the diary of SS Obersturmführer Peter Neumann, commander of the 2nd motorized rifle company of the Nordland regiment. . “The blood runs cold when you read these pages from a book written by an executioner, when you read about the terrible execution of heroes. But the heart is filled not only with sorrow, but with immeasurable pride, pride for those who were not overpowered by the enemy’s force...” The sabotage-partisan group “Maxim” under the command of foreman Leonid Chernyakhovsky operated in the most difficult conditions, in the rear of a million-strong German army, in the steppe zone of the foothills of the Northern Caucasus, providing operational information about the movements of Nazi troops to the command of the Stalingrad Front. The headquarters sent partisan groups primarily to attack railways and highways. But there were only two railways near Stalingrad, and one of them was the North Caucasus Road - the main object of sabotage activities of the Maxim group...