Summary Balter B. And


Boris Isaakovich Balter (1919-1974) – Russian Soviet prose writer, author of the story “Good-bye, boys!”.
He graduated from school in Evpatoria. In 1936 he was sent to Leningrad, and from 1938 to the Kiev Military School; Officer participated in the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic War; since 1944 – member of the party. In 1945-1946 he was a student of the Military Academy. MV Frunze (dismissed due to illness). From 1948 he studied and graduated from the Literary Institute in 1953, where he studied, in particular, in the seminar of K. Paustovsky, with whom he maintained friendly relations. Since 1953, for several years, Balter headed the literary department of the Khakassian Institute of Language, Literature and History in Abakan, translated tales from the Khakass language in 1955 and 1958. Balter owned the initiative of publishing a compilation of “Tarusa pages” published by Paustovsky in 1961. He lived in Moscow and was expelled from the party in 1968 after he signed a letter in defense of Yu. Galanskov and A. Ginzburg.


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Summary Balter B. And