Branch of troops: Soviet Navy and Naval forces of the NKVD border troops. Radiooperator Gorlov returned to the cockpit tired and with an uneasy feeling: when transmitting the last radio message, something went wrong with the radio's motor generator. This morning Grigory Gorlov learned from the report of Sovinformburo that the Soviet troops completed the liberation of his native Donbas. "When I get back from the patrol," he thought, " I'll write a letter to my old people. Are they alive?" Gorlov met the war in Odessa, on the training ship "Dnepr", where he, at that time a laboratory assistant at the department of radio engineering of the Black sea higher naval school, trained with cadets. The cadets were recalled to the school, and he remained on board a ship as a radiotelegraph operator. Service on the "Dnipro" battle ship ended dramatically for Gorlov: on October 3, 1941, on the way from Novorossiysk to Sevastopol, the ship was torpedoed by the Heinkel nazi airplane. Gorlov was picked up from the water by a minesweeper. Then he fought in Kerch on Taman, near Novorossiysk, and now served within the division of boat minesweepers. Their KTSHCH-520 military boat almost never quit going out for patrols and briefly stayed at their base - to replenish supplies only. In the morning of August 20, as soon as they returned from the sea, Gorlov was called to the communications center by Sergeant - Major Subbotin. "Get the radio," he said, "and go on patrol on board the "Shkval" battle ship. So the signalman of the flagship ordered. "You're our strike force...". "Strike force!" Gorlov repeated to himself silently and not without reproach, remembering again the problems with the engine`s generator. He was already rising from his cockpit, intending to go back to the control room, when the battle alarm sounded. Ksenofontov, the mechanic, was the first to rush to the ramp. Gorlov has popped up on the deck behind him. The engine roared. The ship's machine gun rattled. Two hundred meters away from the ship, Gorlov clearly saw the dark hull of the submarine. "Gorlov," Lieutenant Bakchevnikov shouted him from the bridge, "immediately inform staff watch officer that: "at 21:30 I had spotted a nazi submarine. Got into the battle». Gorlov rushed to the radio, flipped the switch and ... swore angrily in annoyance: the engine-generator was not functionig. Never before had his hands worked with such speed and dexterity. But then something hot and sharp tore at his back. I am wounded… The next moment, a burst of machine-gun fire went through the radio set. Gorlov went upstairs to the commander, exhausted from the weakness and sharp pain that filled his body: "I didn't have time to pass the report, comrade Lieutenant. The radio is broken, I'm injured…"