Before you is a book dedicated to the life and work of the famous Soviet designer, Colonel General of the Technical Forces Vasily Gavrilovich Grabin and the work of the Central Artillery Design Bureau, headed by him from 1943 to 1959. Grabin created hundreds of unique guns. The famous ZIS-3 cannon became the same symbol of victory as the attack aircraft IL-2 and & # 96; Katyusha & # 96;. Less well-known are his post-war works, although among them were the most modern models, for example, a 100-mm aircraft automatic gun, mobile heavy-duty S-72 and S-73 guns, a 420-mm recoilless atomic gun, etc.