A book about young heroes and heroines of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Of the thousands of names listed in the artistic chronicle of an unprecedented military epic, the book could only move a very limited number. Some essays were written during the war years. Not everything in them is equivalent, not everything is honed and perfected, but all of them, without exception, are strong primarily by their genuine sincerity, the desire to convey to the descendants the courageous and vivid features of young heroes. As Leonid Leonov wrote at that time:... "even before historians, sculptors and poets find worthy forms for the embodiment of the selfless achievements of the heroes, and the Fatherland puts their images in bronze, at least their most insignificant living features should be preserved by any means." More than half a century already separates us from those days when, not sparing themselves, young heroes defended our today's peaceful day. But their living features did not erase or fade from time to time. No one is forgotten, and nothing is forgotten.