A plot about the post-war life of the participants in the war, prototypes of the heroes of the poem by A. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin" - the pilot M. Trusov and the coastal infantry soldier A. Poskonin. A. Poskonin, living in the Tambov region, at home reading the poem "Vasily Terkin", in the house of his parents, with his brothers, wife; in the shop during work. A. Poskonin during a meeting with a former front-line soldier M. Trusov, who lives in the village of Kirsanovka, Tambov Region. M. Trusov talks about his feat, which was described in the poem by A. Tvardovsky - about the rescue of three pilots, whom he took on his bomber from a downed plane in front of the Nazis. Photo by A. Tvardovsky. Poem "Vasily Terkin". Winter landscape.