How did it all start?.. On the calendar two thousandth, the heavy nuclear cruiser Peter the Great, the Barents Sea, rendezvous with an emergency British submarine... And suddenly an anomaly, a breakdown of the space-time metric and... At the other end is the South Atlantic, in the courtyard of 1982, on the map of the whole USSR, the Cold War and everything else. Having overcome the combat vicissitudes, they came to the Union... And three years later, those in power in the Kremlin offices decided, all the more so the scientists were able to calculate the algorithms and conditions for the transition - to pay a return visit to those original "two thousand of some kind. "For scientists, this is undoubtedly a grandiose experiment. For the political leadership, this is a mission to establish contact by sending a special representative with far-reaching military-political and economic plans. For the military... The USSR Navy ensured the stability of the operation, from some of its own considerations and calculations, allocating a whole warship for this matter - the anti-submarine cruiser Moskva. If they all knew...