The story “Yoongi. The Game is Serious" is dedicated to boys, students of the naval special school of the People's Commissariat of Education, who dream of becoming sailors. For the sake of their dream, they are ready to make any sacrifice. They are full of bright hopes, believe in their future profession, the romance of naval service and do not know what fate has in store for them. The author brings the story to the first days of the Great Patriotic War, and we understand that many of the heroes we love will not survive this terrible war. It fell to their lot to experience the burden of the most difficult first months of the war in Leningrad under the blockade.