Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov (1905–1995) is a famous Russian Soviet writer, Honored Cultural Worker of the Latvian SSR (1969). He has written two cycles of historical novels about the exploration of the Far East by the Russian people in the 19th century, about the exploits of explorers. The novel “War for the Ocean” chronologically continues the chain of events begun in the novel “Captain Nevelskoy”. Here is the fate of the second expedition along the Amur under the leadership of N. M. Chikhachev, and the active exploration of the Pacific coast of North America by the Russian-American Company, as well as the heroic defense of the Peter and Paul port in Kamchatka in August 1854 from the Anglo-French squadron...