Vera Panova's prose is amazing and multifaceted. In the characters of her books, be it "Seryozha" or "Companions", "Clear Coast" or "Kruzhilikha", the reader easily recognizes himself, his family and friends. He empathizes with these heroes and believes in them. In Sputnik, Vera Panova tells about the feat of military doctors who, during the Great Patriotic War, transported the wounded from the front to the rear hospitals. To write this book, she spent two months traveling on an ambulance train to battlefields and saw with her own eyes how important the work of those who save soldiers' lives is. Vera Panova paints a large-scale canvas of authentic human destinies through the personal stories of the characters. Each of her characters has their own principles, their own sorrows and joys, but it is here and now that they are companions on the roads of war. By saving the lives of the wounded, doctors and nurses made an invaluable contribution to the Victory. In Soviet times, "Sputniki" was filmed twice. These are the favorite films of Iskander Khamraev's Mercy Train and Pyotr Fomenko's For the Rest of My Life. In addition, already in the post-Soviet era, a TV series was released under the original name "Satellites".