The book is dedicated to the short but heroic life of Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors. Among the names of the legendary heroes of the civil war, the name of Shchors stands next to the name of Chapaev. Both died almost simultaneously, in 1919: Shchors - August 30 in Ukraine, near the Korosten station, Chapaev - September 5 on the river. Ural, near Lbischensky. At one of the meetings of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR in 1935, Stalin called Shchors "Ukrainian Chapaev." These words of Stalin found a hot response in the hearts of many thousands of civil war veterans who, under the command of a 24-year-old chief, fought in Ukraine against German invaders, hetman and Petliura counter-revolutionary hordes. The Bolsheviks of Ukraine carefully collected every grain of memories of their national hero, of one of the creators of the regular Red Army in Ukraine, a fearless commander who was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lenin-Stalin party to the Bolshevik. The author for the first time reveals the true circumstances of the death of the legendary commander N. Schorsa. The book largely satisfies the demand of young people, readers of all generations for historical truth, which is now being rewritten and desecrated with lies.