Not Listed

On June 21, 1941, young lieutenant Koliya Pluzhnikov, having received an appointment to a permanent service location, arrives in Brest. The crowded waiting halls of the train station and the throng of people burdened with luggage do not alarm the young man filled with joyful hope. Koliya hurries to the location of his unit — to the Brest Fortress… The soldier is not enrolled in the personnel list of military personnel, and at four in the morning, artillery explosions are heard — the war has begun. Thus, not being listed, he participates in the first battle of his life, which will last ten months... A story of selflessness and heroism of soldiers who fell in a merciless war, about the strength of man and love, about the Great Victory, woven from feats and faith. Boris Vasilyev (1924 - 2013), a native of Smolensk, volunteered to the front at the age of 17, went through the Great Patriotic War, and became part of Russian literature as the author of some of the most poignant works about war. His works include "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...", "Tomorrow There Was War", "Aty-Baty, the Soldiers Were Marching" and the legendary "Officers".