As a war correspondent for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, K.M. Simonov traveled to many sectors of the front during the Great Patriotic War. He tried to capture everything that he witnessed in his diary entries, which he literary processed and commented on in the post-war years. Here are the pages of Konstantin Simonov's diary, dedicated to the first, most difficult year of the war - 1941. They allow you to immerse yourself in the maelstrom of events on the battlefields and in the rear, to see the difficult everyday life of war correspondents. The publication is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet literature and journalism of that time.