Summary Baklanov G. I


Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (real name Fridman, September 11, 1923, Voronezh – December 23, 2009, Moscow) is a Russian Soviet writer.

In 1941 he left for the front as an ordinary soldier. He fought on the North-Western Front in the 387th Artillery Regiment of the 34th Army. From the front he was sent to the artillery school. Upon termination, he fought on the South-Western, 3rd Ukrainian fronts. He was seriously wounded, finished the war commander of artdiviziona. Member of the CPSU since 1942.
After the war, Baklanov entered the Literary Institute. AM Gorky, who graduated in 1951. The first story was published in the magazine “Krestyanka” in 1951-m. At the beginning of his creative career, the writer turned to the new direction of Russian literature – “rural prose”, but Baklanov’s fame brought the first story of the war – “Nine Days (South of the Main Strike)” (1958) and immediately became famous “The Land

Plow” (1959) , telling about the fate of a common man at the front. The same theme was in the center of attention and subsequent works of the author: the novel “The Dead Shame Does not Have Hate” (1961), the novel “July 41 years” (1964), in which the writer was one of the first to raise the question of Stalin’s responsibility for the defeat of the Red Army at the beginning war.
Again Baklanov declared himself as a writer-front-line soldier story “Forever – Nineteen Years” (1979), dedicated to the fate of young boys – yesterday’s schoolchildren – who came to the front. This story was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1982).
According to Grigory Baklanov’s scripts, many films were shot: “Learning the White Light,” “There was a month in May.”
From 1986 to 1993, Baklanov was the editor-in-chief of the journal Znamya.
In 1993 he signed the “Letter of Forty-Two.”
Grigory Baklanov passed away on December 23, 2009 in Moscow, was buried on December 26, 2009 at the Troekurovsky cemetery.


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Summary Baklanov G. I