Ocean Patrol: Wind from the Ocean
18 hrs. 50 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Valentin Pikul
Author
Valentin Pikul
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
The second book of the novel "Ocean Patrol"—“Wind from the Ocean”—is devoted to the advance of Soviet troops in the Arctic in 1944 and to the actions of torpedo boats supporting amphibious operations.
This two-volume work is the first major project of the well-known Soviet writer V.S. Pikul, written in 1951–53. He wrote it based on his impressions of the war in the North, in which he took part as a junior sailor (ship’s boy) of the Northern Fleet. This is a true epic covering, though seemingly not a very long, yet highly eventful period—from the autumn of 1943 until the defeat of the German grouping in the far North and the liberation of part of Norway by Soviet troops in the autumn of 1944. The action unfolds both on land and at sea, on the Soviet front and in Finland. The main collective hero is the crew of the guard ship “Askold,” the ship’s captain Ryabinin, his family, the senior mate Peklevannny, the doctor Varya Kitezh[e]va, the ship’s sailors, and the marines. The author himself considered the book unsuccessful. Personally, I read it quite a long time ago, and since then it has become one of my favorite war and North novels. Not everything is of equal value in it—there are some stretchings—but the plot is good, the action develops dynamically, and the characters are interesting and likable. It reads easily, and a number of episodes stay in memory: for example, the account of the “Askold” sinking from a German acoustic torpedo; an episode of Soviet sailors boarding a German torpedo boat; a description of the adventures of the scout Nikonov behind German lines, where he became commander of an international partisan detachment; the actions of Ryabinin’s trap ship in the fight against German submarines; the Finns’ stand against their former allies—and much more.
This two-volume work is the first major project of the well-known Soviet writer V.S. Pikul, written in 1951–53. He wrote it based on his impressions of the war in the North, in which he took part as a junior sailor (ship’s boy) of the Northern Fleet. This is a true epic covering, though seemingly not a very long, yet highly eventful period—from the autumn of 1943 until the defeat of the German grouping in the far North and the liberation of part of Norway by Soviet troops in the autumn of 1944. The action unfolds both on land and at sea, on the Soviet front and in Finland. The main collective hero is the crew of the guard ship “Askold,” the ship’s captain Ryabinin, his family, the senior mate Peklevannny, the doctor Varya Kitezh[e]va, the ship’s sailors, and the marines. The author himself considered the book unsuccessful. Personally, I read it quite a long time ago, and since then it has become one of my favorite war and North novels. Not everything is of equal value in it—there are some stretchings—but the plot is good, the action develops dynamically, and the characters are interesting and likable. It reads easily, and a number of episodes stay in memory: for example, the account of the “Askold” sinking from a German acoustic torpedo; an episode of Soviet sailors boarding a German torpedo boat; a description of the adventures of the scout Nikonov behind German lines, where he became commander of an international partisan detachment; the actions of Ryabinin’s trap ship in the fight against German submarines; the Finns’ stand against their former allies—and much more.
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