From the defense of Leningrad to Operation Bagration, from the bloody meat grinder on the Sinyavin Heights to the triumphant Vistula-Oder operation, which became a real blitzkrieg of the Red Army, is the author of this book, commander of the 311th Infantry Division of the 1st Belorussian Front, with battles walked from the Baltic states to the Elbe, was one of the first to enter German territory and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. However, his memoirs, created on the basis of a front-line diary, never saw the light of day during the author’s lifetime - Divisional Commander Vladimirov wrote so harshly and frankly, without hushing up either the mistakes of the command or cases of unforgivable blindness and incompetence, that his memoirs had to wait for publication for more than a third of a century.