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Vereĭskiĭ, O. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

Shkolʹnai︠a︡ biblioteka (Gosudarstvennoe izdatelʹstvo detskoĭ literatury) [More in this series]

Notes

• Translated title: Faraway Lands.
• Arkady Gaidar, was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children.He was born in Lgov town, Imperial Russia (now in Kursk Oblast, Russia), to a family of a teacher. His childhood Gaidar spent in Arzamas. In 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army. During the Russian Civil War, he was made a commander of a regiment at the age of 16. Gaidar was wounded in combat on several occasions. He retired from the army in 1924 due to a contusion. A year later, Gaidar began publishing his literary works. His story "RVS" (1926) defined his further life in many respects: Gaidar found his vocation in children's literature by telling stories of front-line comradery and romanticism of revolutionary struggle. A story "Timur and his squad" (1940) made Gaidar famous. The character Timur was named after and partially based on Gaidar's son. A captivating account of an altruistic pioneer enterprise gave birth to a mass Timur movement among Young Pioneers and other children all over the Soviet Union.In the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Gaidar was sent to the front as a special correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda. In the fall of 1941, Gaidar and other soldiers were surrounded by the Nazi troops. He joined the partisans and became a machine gunner. On October 26, Gaidar died in combat.

Binding note

Pub. col. ill. boards.

OCLC

1000558191

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