Anatoli Stepanovich Ivanov (; May 5, 1928 – May 31, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian writer known for his novels on rural topics. Ivanov was born on in the village of Shemonaikha (now in the

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). His parents, Marfa Loginovna and Stepan Ivanov, came from peasant farming families, but he was not involved in the farm, living in the district center where his father worked as head of the district department of Soyuzpechat'. In 1946-1950 he studied at the journalism faculty of Kazakh State University. His creative activity began in 1948 as a journalist in the newspaper ''Priirtyshskaya pravda'' (

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), served in the military, then was the editor of the regional newspaper ''Leninskoe znamya'' in the

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. From 1954 he began to publish stories; his first collection was ''Alkiny pesni'' (Alka's songs, 1958). In 1958-1964 he was deputy editor of the magazine ''Sibirskie ogni''. In the late 1960s he moved to Moscow. The main themes of his works are the revolution in the Siberian villages, collectivization, and World War II. Two of his novels were filmed. ''Eternal Call'' was the base of the TV series with the same name.Что такое «план Даллеса»
/ref> Another TV series was based on his novel ''Shadows Disappear at Noon'' ('' :ru:Тени исчезают в полдень''). The two novels are represented in a monument at the author's birthplace Shemonaikha. Ivanov was a

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and recipient of many other awards.

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А. С. Иванов в энциклопедии «Кругосвет»
* 1928 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century Russian screenwriters Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Eleventh convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Socialist realism writers Russian editors Soviet editors Soviet male writers Soviet screenwriters Soviet male screenwriters Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Molodaya Gvardiya (magazine) editors {{Russia-writer-stub