Kronstadt. Islanders

Six hundred mostly brief "sketches" of a biographical nature relate to fate, life circumstances, being of noticeable people, whose names are fixed in the history of a unique fortress city. The names given, the smallest part of them, stem from the author’s personal memories. Incomparably mostly they act as a result of searches, diving into the accessible depths of the Internet. For readers who are interested in both the long -standing and the recent past of the city of amazing fate - Kronstadt.
Valentin Petrovich Mitrofanov (1941-2019) - a graduate, later a teacher and dean of the Leningrad shipbuilding institute. Since 1988-editor-in-chief of the publishing house "Shipbuilding", since 1993, the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Elmore Marine Scientific and Technical Publishing House. The writer, member of the Union of Journalists, a popularizer of history and the modernity of shipbuilding, author of the books "School under Sails", "Commander, Commander, Captain", My Friend Ravigan, "great -granddaughter and great -great -granddaughter". Childhood and youth of the author