From the author: I am the record holder of the Russian Internet for age: I am 84 years old. If this doesn’t scare you, and if you are seriously interested in the history of the Patriotic War, then I invite you to get acquainted with the memoirs I wrote. They talk about unknown or little-known pages of the history of the war through the prism of personal experiences. There are fewer and fewer of us, participants and witnesses of the hard times of war, every year; what is not written and not told will go with us into oblivion. I hope that the pages posted here will preserve a piece of the past for today and future generations.