Книга о морях и океанах, об истории их открытия, о замечательных мореходах и флотоводцах, о том, как море служит человеку. За эту книгу Сахарнов был удостоен первой премии Международной книжной ярмарки в Болонье (1972), премии на фестивале в Братиславе (1973) и серебряной медали на Международной книжной выставке в Москве (1975).
Svyatoslav Vladimirovich Sakharnov. Soviet children's writer. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944.
He was born on March 12, 1923 in the city of Artemovsk in Ukraine. His parents died early: his mother in 1936, his father two years later. The boy was brought up by an older sister. In 1940 Svyatoslav passed the exams and was admitted to the Frunze Higher Naval School.