The story of a Ukrainian-Jewish family in Kyiv is at the center of Alexei Nikitin's new novel ‘From the Faces of Fire’. Ilya Goldinov is a boxer, from Dynamo, champion of Ukraine in heavyweight. In the first months of the war, Ilya commanded a platoon of a partisan regiment, later fought as part of an infantry division of the Red Army, was captured, and found an opportunity to escape. In February 1942, he went to Kyiv on the assignment of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR. His wife, Felix, was evacuated to the Urals, but already in November 1943, with the advancing troops, she returned to the city to find out the fate of her husband.