Nicknamed "Malyuta." Berg A.

The captain of the Russian special forces dies, saving a young woman with a child from the collision of a drunken driver. It seems everything, life is over, but he receives a second chance, finding himself in the body of a young lieutenant who died as a result of an accident.

The summer of 1937. The Kiev Military District, the newly made Lieutenant Skuratov accepts a platoon of fighters under his command. He has only four years to make his fighters of the notorious thugs, and if he succeeds, then on the hot summer of 1941, the vaunted German “Brandenburg” was washed by blood in the forests of Ukraine and Belarus, and the forest brothers will become mannequins for working out the skills of the Red Army special forces.