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Grigoriy Yakovlevich Baklanov
Григорий Бакланов
Birth at
31 August 1994
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Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was born on September 11, 1923 in Voronezh. After the death of his parents, he and his brother were raised by aunts. After graduating from the ninth grade, Grigory Baklanov went to study at the aviation engineering school. When the Great Patriotic War began, he worked as a locksmith at the 18th aviation plant, which produced Il-2 attack aircraft. To get into the military school, Baklanov externally passed the exams for a decade, but, taking advantage of the opportunity,
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Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was born on September 11, 1923 in Voronezh. After the death of his parents, he and his brother were raised by aunts. After graduating from the ninth grade, Grigory Baklanov went to study at the aviation engineering school. When the Great Patriotic War began, he worked as a locksmith at the 18th aviation plant, which produced Il-2 attack aircraft. To get into the military school, Baklanov externally passed the exams for a decade, but, taking advantage of the opportunity, he joined the artillery regiment as a volunteer. He fought on the North-Western Front, after graduating from the 2nd Leningrad Artillery School, he got to the South-Western (later the 3rd Ukrainian) Front. In October 1943, Baklanov was seriously wounded in the battles for Zaporozhye, but six months later he returned to his regiment and fought in Moldova, fought in Hungary, near Lake Balaton, stormed Budapest and Vienna. Lieutenant of Artillery Intelligence Grigory Baklanov finished the war in Austria. In December 1945, he was demobilized, entered the Literary Institute, which he graduated in 1951. He began to print since 1950, and the first novel that brought the writer fame was (the third in a row) “Fifth of the Earth”, printed in the journal “New World” in 1959. Official criticism rushed to the book, accusing “trench truth” in the true depiction of the war and the fate of its ordinary participants, and subsequently “military prose” Baklanova came out, overcoming ideological obstacles. The most difficult was the fate of the novel “July 41 years”, after the first publication did not appear in the USSR for twelve years. Among the other books of the writer - "Dead sram do not imut", "Friends", "Forever - nineteen-year-olds", "Less among brothers".
A huge role in the “perestroika” years was played by Grigory Baklanov as editor-in-chief of the magazine “Znamya”, which he held in 1986-1993. For several years the magazine was the first to publish many hitherto banned works, including - "Heart of a Dog" by M. Bulgakov, "On the right of memory" by A. Tvardovsky, "Verny Ruslan" by G. Vladimov, "A golden cloud was overnight." . ." A. Pristavina.
According to the books and scripts of Grigory Baklanov, eight films were shot, of which the closest he calls the television film "It was the month of May", directed by Marlen Khutsiev on the story "How much a pound dash" .
In 1997, for the book “And then come looters” the writer was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation.