“In the steppe near Kherson there are tall grasses, in the steppe near Kherson there is a mound...” This song about the partisan sailor Zheleznyak - the hero of the civil war A. G. Zheleznyakov is widely known in our country. But few know how the life of this amazing courage and courage of a man turned out. Escape from the tsarist fleet, storming the Winter Palace, dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, command of an armored train - these are the glorious pages of the hero’s biography. He was driven through life by a thirst for achievement and selfless loyalty to the revolution. The author of the book, a former Baltic naval sailor and writer Ilya Amursky, spent many years collecting information about the life and work of Zheleznyakov, looking for his relatives, comrades, and eyewitnesses of the events. The book was written based on this material. Many tens of thousands of fearless soldiers gave their lives for the cause of the people, fighting in the ranks of the Red Army and Navy. The names of such national heroes as Chapaev, Shchors, Rudnev, Parkhomenko, Lazo, Dundich, sailor Zheleznyakov and many others will constantly live in the hearts of generations. The grateful Soviet people compose their songs about them, they write and will write many books about them. They inspire our youth to exploits and heroism and serve as an excellent example of boundless devotion to their people...K. E. Voroshilov.