Publisher's abstract: “Hitler's troops, regardless of losses, sought to capture the so-called Oranienbaum patch - a small section of the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Soviet soldiers and sailors firmly held this important bridgehead. He was reliably covered by powerful artillery fire from the forts Krasnaya Gorka and Gray Horse. The author of the book, the commander of a battery of twelve-inch guns, writes mainly about the artillerymen, about how they ensured the defense of the Oranienbaum patch, suppressed enemy artillery shelling Leningrad, and then contributed to the advance of our troops from the bridgehead, defeating the enemy at the walls of the hero city. The book is intended for the mass reader."