The exhibition features a souvenir — a Soviet tank on a rectangular stand with a dedication. It was a birthday present to Vitaly Aleksandrovich Zakrutkin from the military from the North Caucasus. Military school cadets, conscripts, and young officers often invited the veteran writer to meetings, celebrations, performances, and parades.
Vitaly Zakrutkin was asked to speak about the campaigns and battles of the Great Patriotic War, tell exciting stories about the exploits of heroes, battalions, and entire armies. The writer had a lot to tell, because he went through the entire war — from August 1941 to May 1945, from the Don land to Berlin and Prague. He ended up at the front line as a war correspondent. He volunteered to go there from the first day of the war but was rejected every time. He could not serve in the active army because of his poor eyesight.
By visiting the recruiting station every day, Vitaly Zakrutkin managed to be sent to the front-line as a journalist, joining the 56th active army. As a soldier, he fought in almost all areas of the Caucasian Front. After the victory over Germany, he wrote a lot about the war in his books. For example, he wrote in one of his essays,
