This book is the author's full version of the famous documentary novel 'Babi Yar' about the extermination of the Jewish population of Kiev in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, then a teenager, himself witnessed the executions of Kiev Jews, communicated a lot with people who survived the catastrophe, collected memories of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first published in the Yunost magazine in 1966, and even then, despite numerous and rough censorship cuts, it had the effect of an exploding bomb - so no one dared to write about the Holocaust before Kuznetsov. However, the path of the true history of Babi Yar to the reader turned out to be long and difficult. In 1969, Anatoly Kuznetsov secretly took the full version of the novel to England, where he asked for political asylum. A year later, 'Babi Yar' was published in the West in the author's edition, but the Russian reader was able to get acquainted with the text without cuts only after perestroika.