About the book: 1971 / Makar Mazai went through an amazing journey - from a semi-literate farmhand to a world-famous steelworker, a hero of whom the country was proud. In the fall of 1941, the Nazis occupied Mariupol. Having captured the steelworker, the Nazis promised him everything: fame, power, money. He preferred death to betrayal of his homeland. This story tells about the life and death of the communist Mazai.