Twice Hero of the Soviet Union A.F. Fyodorov—one of the celebrated organizers of the partisan movement in the republic—during the Great Patriotic War years served as secretary of the Communist Party’s clandestine regional committees (oblast committees) in Chernihiv and Volhynia, and as commander of a partisan unit. His book is devoted to the heroic partisan epic in Ukraine. This vivid, deeply literary narrative is about the people’s avengers—brave people, selfless patriots of their Motherland, whose life and deeds serve as an example of heroism for our youth.