Many operations in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed are not mentioned or barely mentioned in the annals of the Great Patriotic War. The reason may be an accident. But with the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front there was no accident. Everything was done to make it oblivious, to distort the meaning of the feat of its soldiers and commanders. General Andrei Vlasov was chosen as the “scapegoat”. The tragedy of the 2nd Shock Army is still an unclosed page in our history. During this attempt of the first breakthrough of the blockade ring around Leningrad and in the Volkhov Cauldron, tens of thousands of people died, the remains of most of them remained unburied... For the first time in the book - the whole truth about the great feats and tragedy of the 2nd Shock Army.