(13 (26) .8.1913)
Russian Soviet writer, public figure, Hero of Socialist Labor (1973). Member of the CPSU since 1941. Candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1971. He was born in the family of a doctor. He graduated from the Literary Institute of M. Gorky (1938). Published in 1937 as a critic. The first work of art is a trilogy dedicated to the feat of Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War: “It was in Leningrad” (1944), “Lida” (1945), “Peace Days” (1947). The peculiar lyrical and journalistic style of the trilogy was further developed in the novel “We Have Morning” (1949, State Prize of the USSR, 1950), imbued with the pathos of the socialist transformation of Southern Sakhalin in the postwar years. Moral and ethical problems