Stanislav Minakov, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, Russian PEN (Moscow), laureate of international literary and journalistic prizes, has collected his essays, articles of different years devoted to the military theme in Russian Soviet poetry and song, as well as cinema. Since 2005, these works have been published in collections, magazines, almanacs of different countries, as well as on Internet sites, partially read - in different years - as reports at the International Congresses of the Dostoevsky Foundation "Russian Literature in the World Cultural Context" and lectures in Belgorod State Literary Museum, educational institutions of Belgorod. The author's spelling is a significant part of the works.