alexey khromov served in the ranks of the second air army during the soviet victory.were making a breakthrough towards stalingrad near the myshkova river. the 308th infantry regiment had to stop them. i have in my hands two registration and service cards for the writer and front-line soldier yuri bondarev. in fact, these are duplicate documents, it’s just that the photographs here are different: one from the sixties, the other, apparently, after the victory, because there are already order bars, shoulder straps after the reform of 1943, but still a young man, this is approximately how he met his event near stalingrad, which... also had prototypes, how many of their orphans were adopted by the soldiers, the son of the regiment was built from my first impressions as a war correspondent, he defined his vanya kotaev in the novel to the artillerymen, because he himself was in the artillery in the first world war, in the cinema, whether in 1946 or 1981, the commander sends vanya with a report so that at least the boy survives, do it, son, come on, come on, and the girls fro