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Nash Sovremennik
''Nash Sovremennik'' (Наш современник, Our Contemporary) is a Russian literary magazine, founded in 1956, as a successor to the ''Yearly Almanac''. History The predecessor of ''Nash Sovremennik'' was the Maxim Gorky-founded Almanac that was coming out in 1933-1937 and in 1949-1955, 1 to 4 times a year. The Almanac's title was chronologically changing, from ''Year XVI'' (1933) to ''Year XXXVIII'' (1956), the point of reference being 1917, the year of the Socialist Revolution. In 1956 the Almanac changed its name to ''Nash Sovremennik'' and up until 1964 was coming out as a quarterly. Initially it belonged to the Union of Writers of the USSR, since 1958 it moved under the jurisdiction of the RSFSR Union of Writers. ''Nash Sovremennik''s first editors-in-chief were Viktor Poltoratsky (1956-1958, an editorial staff member up until 1973) and Boris Zubavin (1958-1968). In its early years the magazine had as its main purpose seeking out new literary talents in the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Vikulov
Sergey Vasilyevich Vikulov (russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Ви́кулов; September 13, 1922 — July 1, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian poet, editor, and the Union of Soviet Writers' official. Biography Sergey Vikulov was born in the village of Yemelyanovskaya in Cherepovets Governorate into a poor peasant family. In October 1942, he volunteered for the Soviet Army and as a flak and artillery battery commander fought at the Kalinin, then Stalingrad Fronts. Later he became the 247th Zenith and Artillery regiment's Chief of Stuff's deputy and demobilized in the rank of a Guard captain, a chevalier of several high-profile military awards, including two Orders of the Red Star. In the late 1940s Sergey Vikulov started to write poetry. In 1951 he graduated the Vologda State pedagogical institute's literary faculty and became the member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1972, for his poem ''Alone Forever'' (1970) as well as ''The Plough and the Furro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeni Nosov (writer)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Nosov (russian: Евгений Иванович Носов; January 15, 1925 in Kursk, USSR – June 13, 2002 in Kursk, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Russian writer, part of the village prose movement, who since 1958 (when he debuted with ''On the Fisherman's Trail'', a collection of stories and short novels) contributed regularly to ''Nash Sovremennik'' and ''Novy Mir'' magazines. Nosov, who fought in World War II and was severely injured in February 1945, received two Orders of Lenin (1984, 1990) and the Hero of the Socialist Labour (1990) title. In 2001 he was awarded the Solzhenitsyn Prize The Solzhenitsyn Prize is a non-governmental Russian literary award established by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1997. The $25,000 prize is awarded for "works in which troubles of the Russian life are shown with rare moral purity an ... for having created works that "...highlighted the tragedy of the War and the immense consequences it had for the Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Prokhanov
Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Проха́нов; born 26 February 1938) is a Russian writer, a member of the secretariat of the Writers Union of the Russian Federation and the author of more than 30 novels and short story collections. He is the editor-in-chief of Russia's extreme-right (or radical-reactionary) newspaper ''Zavtra'' (Завтра, ''Tomorrow''), that combines ultranationalist and anti-capitalist views. Early life Alexander Prokhanov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to which his ancestors, members of the Russian Christian "Molokan" sect, had been deported by Catherine the Great. His grand-uncle Ivan Prokhanov was a leader of the All-Russian Union of Evangelican Christians (1908–1928) and the one-time vice-President of the Baptist World Alliance who left the USSR in 1928 and died as an emigré. In 1955, Prokhanov enrolled into the Moscow Aviation Institute where for the first time he started to write poetry and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Kuznetsov (poet) ...
Yury Kuznetsov may refer to: * Yury Kuznetsov (actor) (born 1946), Russian film and theatre actor * Yuri Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1931) (1931–2016), Soviet footballer for FC Neftyanik Baku, FC Dynamo Moscow and national team * Yuri Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1958), Russian footballer for FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny and FC Rubin Kazan * Yuri Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1974), Russian footballer for FC Dynamo Moscow * Yuri Kuznetsov (ice hockey, born 1965), Russian ice hockey defenceman who mostly played in Finland * Yuri Kuznetsov (ice hockey, born 1971), Russian ice hockey left wing who played in the 2001 IIHF World Championship * (born 1928), Soviet diplomat * Yuri A. Kuznetsov, mathematician * Yuri Viktorovich Kuznetsov Yuri Viktorovich Kuznetsov (russian: Юрий Викторович Кузнецов; 24 August 1946 – 24 January 2020) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian military officer who held a number of posts in the Soviet Armed Forces, Soviet and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Krupin
Vladimir Nikolayevich Krupin (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Крупи́н, September 7, 1941) is a Soviet Russian writer, editor, religious author and tutor. The major proponent of the Village prose movement, noted for his quirky, folklore-rooted style of writing, Krupin is best known for his 1980 ''Novy Mir''-published satirical novel ''Zhivaya Voda'' (Aqua Vitae). Biography Vladimir Krupin was born in the village of Kilmez, Kirovskaya Oblast, to a local forester. In 1957, after graduating from school, he joined a local newspaper. In 1961, having demobilized from the Soviet Army, Krupin became a member of the CPSU. In 1967 he graduated from N.K.Krupskaya Moscovskaya Oblast Pedagogical Institute and spent several years teaching Russian language in schools. Krupin joined the Sovremennik Publishers as an editor and at one point became its partorg, but was fired after the publication of Georgy Vladimov's ''Three Minutes of Silence''. In 1974 Vladimir Krupin pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Kozhinov
Vadim ( Cyrillic: Вадим) is a Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovene masculine given name derived either from the Persian ''badian'' (anise or aniseed), or from the Ruthenian word ''volod'' (russian: волод), meaning ''to rule'' or ''vaditi'' (russian: вадити), meaning ''to blame''. Its long version, Vadimir, is now obsolete. Dictionary of Russian Names This given name is highly popular in (as Vadim), (as |
Vladimir Bogomolov (writer)
Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov (russian: Владимир Осипович Богомолов; 3 July 1924 in Kirillovka village, Moscow Governorate – 30 December 2003 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian writer. When Bogomolov was still in school the Soviet Union was drawn into World War II. He joined the Army after completing only seven grades. He started the war as a private; when the war was over, he had a company under his command. He was wounded and was awarded several medals during his active duty. He continued his military service until 1950 in the army intelligence in East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state .... In 1950 — 1951, he spent 13 months in jail without being formally charged. He retired in 1952. One of his early short stories, ''Iva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novy Mir
''Novy Mir'' (russian: links=no, Новый мир, , ''New World'') is a Russian-language monthly literary magazine. History ''Novy Mir'' has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre- Soviet literary magazine ''Mir Bozhy'' ("God's World"), which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, ''Sovremenny Mir'' ("Contemporary World"), which was published from 1906 to 1917. ''Novy Mir'' mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Communist Party. In the early 1960s, ''Novy Mir'' changed its political stance, leaning to a dissident position. In November 1962 the magazine became famous for publishing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's groundbreaking '' One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'', a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag. In the same year its circulation was about 150,000 copies a month. The magazine continued publishing controversial articles and stories about various aspects of Soviet and Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Znamya
''Znamya'' ( rus, Знамя, p=ˈznamʲə, a=Ru-знамя.ogg, lit. "The Banner") is a Russian monthly literary magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931–1932, the magazine was published under the name of ''Lokaf'' ("Локаф", which was an abbreviation of "Литературное объединение писателей Красной Армии и флота", or Literary Association of Writers of the Red Army and Fleet). During the Soviet times, ''Znamya'' dedicated most of its pages to short stories and novels about the military, publishing works by Konstantin Simonov, Vasily Grossman, Pavel Antokolsky and others. ''Znamya'' has different sections dedicated to prose, poetry, essays, literary criticism, bibliography etc. In 1972, the magazine had a circulation of some 160,000 copies. In April 1954, the magazine published poems from the novel " Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak. Since Perestroika, the magazine has a liberal orientation. It publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oktyabr (magazine)
''Oktyabr'' ( rus, Октябрь, p=ɐkˈtʲabrʲ, a=Ru-октябрь.ogg, "October'") was a monthly Russian literary magazine based in Moscow. It was in circulation between 1924 and 2019. In addition to ''Novy Mir'' and ''Znamya'' the monthly was a leading and deep-rooted literary magazine in Russia. History ''Oktyabr'' was launched in 1924 by a group with the same name, "Oktyabr", which was founded by the poet Alexander Bezymensky and the novelist Yury Libedinsky in 1922. It was an official organ of the Soviet Union and had a conservative political stance. Particularly during the post-World War II period it became one of the most pro-government publications and was instrumental in shaping the image of Soviet poetry. The editorial board of the magazine in the Soviet era included those figures recognized by the state. The first chief editor was Labory Kalmanson who was also known as G. Lelevich. Fyodor Ivanovich served as chief editor of the monthly for two times (from 1931 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavophile
Slavophilia (russian: Славянофильство) was an intellectual movement originating from the 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed on the basis of values and institutions derived from Russia's early history. Slavophiles opposed the influences of Western Europe in Russia. Depending on the historical context, the opposite of Slavophilia could be seen as Slavophobia (a fear of Slavic culture) or also what some Russian intellectuals (such as Ivan Aksakov) called ''zapadnichestvo'' (westernism). History Slavophilia, as an intellectual movement, was developed in 19th-century Russia. In a sense, there was not one but many Slavophile movements or many branches of the same movement. Some were leftist and noted that progressive ideas such as democracy were intrinsic to the Russian experience, as proved by what they considered to be the rough democracy of medieval Novgorod. Some were rightist and pointed to the centuries-old tradition of the autocratic tsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molodaya Gvardia
Molodaya Gvardia (russian: Молодая Гвардия; uk, Молода Гвардія, '' tr. Moloda Hvardiya'', en, Young Guard) is a Ukrainian junior ice hockey team based in Donetsk. The team is an affiliate of the Kontinental Hockey League's HC Donbass, and is a member of the Minor Hockey League (MHL), joining in the 2013–14 season. They are the sole representative from Ukraine competing at the major-junior level. Borys Kolesnikov, a prominent Ukrainian politician and businessman, owns the organization. The team takes its name from the World War II Soviet resistance group the Young Guard, who consisted mainly of local youths and also operated in the Donbass region. History On April 2, 2013, HC Donbass announced official negotiations had taken place regarding the inclusion of a Ukrainian minor hockey team in the KHL's Minor Hockey League system for the 2013–14 season. Ukrainian former NHL player Alexander Godynyuk Oleksandr Olehovych Hodyniuk ( uk, Олександ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
