The basis of the soldier's diary, written after the war by a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, miner M. Abdulin, was based on memories of difficult front-line roads, the battles for Stalingrad, the Dnieper... about fellow soldiers, their spiritual nobility, military fortitude, and selflessness. The battalion's Komsomol organizer, mortarman, M. Abdulin, in his notes, recreates the stern and gentle image of the Soviet soldier who defended the freedom and independence of our Fatherland. About the author: ABDULIN Mansur Gizatulovich was born in 1923. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. As part of a mortar company, he took part in the defeat of the Nazis at Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge, in the battle for the Dnieper, and liberated Ukraine. He was a battalion Komsomol organizer. In peaceful life, a miner. Lives in Novotroitsk, Orenburg region. This is his first book.