Yuri Markovich Nagibin-writer, journalist and screenwriter, based on the screenplays of which more than 40 films were shot, including those included in the golden fund of Soviet and Russian cinematography: "Chairman", "Pier on the other bank", "Babye Tsardom", "Tchaikovsky", " Midshipmen, go!', 'Vivat, midshipmen!'.In the autumn of 1941, Yuri Nagibin was drafted into the army and sent to the Volkhov Front in the department of political management, where his duties included conducting propaganda against the Germans on the front line. Often this was done under heavy enemy fire, as a result, Nagibin was several times on the verge of death and received a severe concussion.His war memoirs are a frank work that shows the underside of the war, or "The War from the Back Door," as Nagibin called it. The life of officers and soldiers on the front line with their daily worries, dirt, lice, blood and death is described with bitter humor, without pathos and falsehood, in the best traditions of Russian literature.