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I͡Uriĭ Vasilʹevich Bondarev (1924-2020) - odin iz sozdateleĭ tak nazyvaemoĭ leĭtenantskoĭ prozy - proizvedeniĭ o Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭne, napisannykh ee neposredstvennymi uchastnikami. Dli͡a nego Stalingradskai͡a bitva 1942 goda, o kotoroĭ rasskazyvaetsi͡a v romane "Gori͡achiĭ sneg" (1970), - ne prosto stranit͡sa istorii, a ėtap sobstvennoĭ frontovoĭ biografii: svoĭ pervyĭ boĭ I͡Uriĭ Bondarev prini͡al na Stalingradskom fronte. Pod Stalingradom nasmertʹ vstala artilleriĭskai͡a batarei͡a, pregrazhdai͡a putʹ tankovym divizii͡am generala Manshteĭna. Zdesʹ i seĭchas molodye artilleristy tvori͡at istorii͡u: ot itoga operat͡sii zavisit uspekh Stalingradskoĭ bitvy i, mozhet bytʹ, dazhe iskhod voĭny. Stylye moroznye zori, krugovorot krovi i uzhasa, stremlenie vyzhitʹ, nevozmozhnostʹ otstupitʹ… I sredi vsego ėtogo teplitsi͡a v dushakh geroev prostoe zhelanie li͡ubitʹ i bytʹ li͡ubimymi, kotoroe silʹnee strakha smerti i priblizhai͡ushchikhsi͡a nemet͡skikh tankov.

Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (1924-2020) is one of the creators of the so—called lieutenant's prose, works about the Great Patriotic War written by its direct participants. For him, the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which is described in the novel "Hot Snow" (1970), is not just a page of history, but a stage of his own front—line biography: Yuri Bondarev took his first battle on the Stalingrad front. An artillery battery stood up to its death near Stalingrad, blocking the path of General Manstein's tank divisions. Here and now, young gunners are making history: the success of the Battle of Stalingrad and, perhaps, even the outcome of the war depend on the outcome of the operation. Frozen frosty dawns, the cycle of blood and horror, the desire to survive, the inability to retreat… And among all this, the heroes have a simple desire to love and be loved, which is stronger than the fear of death and approaching German tanks.