About the book: 1964 / Vitaly Grigorievich Melentyev was born in 1916 in Leningrad, in the family of an employee. After finishing the seven-year school, he worked as a mechanic and repair foreman. Traveled a lot around the country. He was a sailor, a loader, a gold miner, a newspaper and radio worker. In 1937, V. G. Melentyev was drafted into the army, where in 1941 he joined the Communist Party. In 1953, he was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. V. G. Melentyev began writing and publishing in 1935. In recent years, he has written more than 30 stories published in various magazines and newspapers, in the collection “Brothers” (1955), as well as the stories “Leshy Ridge” (1952), “Notes of a Private” (1953) “March 33rd” ( 1957), “The Hard Path” (1957), “The Sun over the School” (1958), “Quiet Plot” (1959), “Hieroglyphs of Sikhote-Alin” (1961). The story “Frontline Girl” presented to the readers’ attention tells about the military fate Valya Radionova, a Moscow Komsomol member who was at the front from the first days of the Great Patriotic War. With a group of scouts, she goes across the front line. The scouts are ambushed and die. Only Valya remains alive: her comrade covered her with his body. Valya, gray from everything she has experienced, returns to Moscow. But she is unable to stay away from active combat. And, driven by a sense of civic duty, she goes to the front again. Valya Radionova goes through many trials. She meets good and bad people, experiences all the difficulties of her female position at the front, learns what real, front-line friendship is. The reader cannot help but fall in love with this girl - she combines the strong-willed qualities of a commander and the tenderness of a loving heart. Her image embodies the best traits of a person raised by Soviet society.