About the book: 1961 / The author of the book F. F. Volonchuk - a participant in the Great Patriotic War - talks about the military exploits of reconnaissance sailors, participants in the heroic defense of Sevastopol. On boats, schooners and boats, sailors, soldiers and officers boldly landed behind enemy lines and conducted reconnaissance in the Crimea, on the Kerch Peninsula, on Taman, in the central part of the Main Caucasus Range. Scouts under the command of midshipman F. F. Volonchuk destroyed the police department in Yevpatoria occupied by the Nazis, carried out a number of sabotage actions on the Yalta Highway behind enemy lines, and went for the “tongue” to the Umpirsky pass of the Main Caucasus Range. In 1943, F. F. Volonchuk was transferred by plane from the Caucasus to one of the formations of the Crimean partisans, visited Sevastopol occupied by the enemy, and in January 1944 returned to the mainland. The memoirs of F. F. Volonchuk are based on historical facts, the names of all intelligence officers are genuine