Steel knot. Sergey Zverev

After the battle on the Kursk Bulge, to prevent the Germans from establishing the back of the reserves to the front line, the Soviet command developed the Operation “Rail War”. Every day, hundreds of kilometers of railway tracks were disabled. However, the Nazis stubbornly restored the supply. The crew of Lieutenant Alexei Sokolov received an order to conduct reconnaissance at the station where the Nazis drove the platforms with materials for the repair of the destroyed paths. Tankers successfully conduct a raid, but on the way back their tank fails. Barely restraining the onslaught of the pursuing fascists, the fighters understand: the intelligence received more valuable than their own lives...