Saboteurs. Kovalev V.

It all began in 1940, when young and strong children, sailors and foremen were taken away on the Baltic Fleet, and by order of the People's Commissar of the Navy Kuznetsov, they enrolled in a special purpose detachment: a marine sabotage detachment of combat swimmers. There was a whole life ahead, and none of them yet knew what would happen next...

This is an art book written from Memoirs of Mikhail Andreevich Usatov, whose name is well known among veterans and existing employees of the Federal Security Service Russia, whose name is inscribed in gold letters in the history of the country's special services. A book about a man who went through the whole war, starting from the very first day. About a man who was repeatedly thrown into the deep rear of the enemy to complete particularly important tasks: destroying military facilities, railway bridges, compositions with manpower and equipment, capturing “languages”, collecting and transmitting disorders that fought on the Kursk arc, forced the Dnieper, defended Stalingrad freed Poland. About a man who, after the war, headed special departments in the Baltic and then the Northern Fleet, later became one of the leaders of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR (foreign intelligence). About who prepared and carried out dozens of foreign operations, most of which until this time remain under the heading “Top Secret”. Who was a close associate of the chairman of the State Security Committee of the USSR Yu. V. Andropov.