The day before. Course to victory. Kuznetsov N.G.

Memoirs about the war at sea during the Great Patriotic War of the first person-the People's Commissar of the Navy of the USSR, Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov. Under his leadership, the Soviet fleet successfully opposed the Hitler invasion and achieved victory. From the first to the last day of the Great Patriotic War, the author of memoirs recorded the difficulties and successes of the USSR Navy.

N.G. Kuznetsov in the strengthening of the combat effectiveness of the USSR Navy is great, it was under his leadership on the eve of the war in the Navy that significant transformations were carried out, on his orders of the Navy’s forces were made in combat readiness before June 22, 1941, with his active assistance, the naval aircraft inflicted bombing attacks In August-September 1941, Berlin, in his memoirs, Admiral talks about the heroic struggle of sailors against the invaders. The book discusses the main naval operations of various fleets, significant land operations and battles in which the Navy participated. The admiral, as a member of the headquarters of the Supreme High Command, was aware of all the plans of the Soviet command and shares them on the pages of his memoirs. The thoughtful story of the naval holder shows the whole complexity of the fleet in the first years of the war, when ships, naval aviation and coastal batteries interacted with the current army in coastal regions.

N.G. Kuznetsov on the work of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, the Crimean and Potsdam conferences and the participation of the fleet defeat Japanese militarists in 1945