Anatoli Groshevoy

1986, Chornobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.

August 1941. The commissar, fearing for the life of the German anti‑fascist communist Rettel, sends him and his son Otto in an ambulance train to the rear. During a raid, Rettel is killed, and the eighteen‑year‑old boy ends up with the combat crew led by Senior Sergeant Zhigarev, who has received an urgent order to hold the position — or, in the worst‑case scenario, to blow up the bridge. Zhigarev clearly doesn’t trust the young German...

He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. And only love could put Russian Heroes on both blades