Steppe Thunderstorm

A suburb near Kherson. Occupation. Yurka’s father went to join the partisans. A ten-year-old boy lives with a friend of his father. When the Germans begin reprisals against the families of the underground, the boy runs out into the steppe, hoping the city will soon be freed by the Soviet Army…

In his life, Konstantin Georgievich worked as a war correspondent twice.
He started his career as a military reporter after the October Revolution, in 1917. It was during this period that the Civil War began, and Paustovsky ends up in the Petliura army, and then joins the Red Army.
With the start of the Great Patriotic War, he again begins working as a war correspondent on the Southern Front. He writes quite a few stories. One of them is “Steppe Thunder,” written in 1944.