Beginning of 1943. Red Army is in the offensive, trying to get out to the Sea of Azov. The Marines had become one of the main characters of future battles and liberation of Novorossiysk, and then the Crimea. Soviet Marines in beginning of the Second World War had virtually no history. Only in 1940, the Baltic Fleet was formed one separate brigade of marines. Mass formation and training of new airborne units began with the outbreak of war. Sailor paratroopers trained in climbing, throwing grenades out of any situation, from the sound of shooting. Learned quickly to dig in, walk on the gravel blindfolded without looking to disassemble and assemble any firearm. The usual paratrooper weapon was automatic and semi-automatic rifle PCA Tokarev SVT-40. They are studied throwing knives, mining and demining skills in first aid. Marine Brigade are hastily created on the Black Sea, Northern and Pacific fleets. In the autumn 41th Red Army are supplemented by twenty-five marine brigade. But in combat they often had to perform tasks of conventional infantry units, with the only difference that the Marines were thrown on the most dangerous sections of the front lines. Black jackets and his cap frightens Nazis citing sailors of marines as "black devils." Thus, near Leningrad, near Moscow Dubrovka marines until April 42 th held a small piece of land, called the "Nevsky snout." A heroic defense of Sevastopol was the triumph and tragedy of the Black Sea sailors. 250 days the troops of General Manstein kept Sevastopol under siege, trying unsuccessfully to capture the city. Fighting for the "Malaya Zemlya" near Novorossiysk lasted two months. In the episode also a story about the Order of Glory.
