Fate brought the author of this book, Mikhail Zarubin, together with outstanding people of the city on the Neva - builders and designers of tanks - a formidable weapon of war. To create such machines, Design Bureau No. 2 was built on the basis of the Kirov Plant in 1932. Now this team is headed by Valery Iosifovich Kozishkurt, a man who has been building tanks for half a century. He talks a lot about heavy, medium and light tanks, about how they lived, worked and fought on armored vehicles developed in Bureau No. 2. For almost 90 years of its existence, the Bureau was headed by four people: O. M. Ivanov, Zh. Ya. Kotin. , Popov N. S., Kozishkurt V. I.