This book is the author's unabridged version of the celebrated documentary novel 'Babi Yar,' about the extermination of Kyiv's Jewish population in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, then a teenager, personally witnessed the executions of Kyiv's Jews, spoke extensively with survivors of the catastrophe, and collected the memoirs of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first published in the magazine 'Yunost' in 1966, and even then, despite numerous and crude censorship cuts, it had the effect of exploding—no one had dared to write about the Holocaust in such a way before Kuznetsov. However, the journey of the true story of Babi Yar to readers was long and arduous. In 1969, Anatoly Kuznetsov secretly took the unabridged version of the novel to England, where he sought political asylum. A year later, 'Babi Yar' was published in the West in the author's edition, but Russian readers were able to get acquainted with the text without cuts only after perestroika.