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Arkady Alekseevich Perventsev
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Arkady Alekseevich Perventsev – a Russian Soviet prose writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist, a special correspondent. He was born on January 13 (26), 1905, in the village of Nagut (now Mineralovodsky District, Stavropol Krai) into a family of teachers of Kuban Cossack origin. Perventsev was a third cousin of Vladimir Mayakovsky. His childhood was spent in the Kuban, in the stanitsa Novopokrovskaya.
Early in his career Perventsev worked as a cultural worker in the stanitsa Novorozhdestvenskaya and as a correspondent for the Tikhoretsk newspapers "Proletarian Way" and "Lenin's Way." He served in the cavalry and rose from a Red Army soldier to commander of a saber platoon. After demobilization he moved to Moscow and, while studying at the evening department of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (1929–1933), he worked and wrote short stories. His literary fame began with the publication of the novel "Kochubey" in 1937, dedicated to a hero of the Civil War. He was followed by the novel "Over the Kuban" (1940), which depicts events of the Civil War.
During the Great Patriotic War (World War II) Perventsev was a war correspondent for Izvestia and collaborated with "Red Star" and "Red Fleet." He took part in the defense of Sevastopol, the battle for the Caucasus, and the liberation of Novorossiysk, Kerch and Feodosiya. After the war he wrote the screenplay for the film "The Third Strike" (1948) about the Crimean offensive operation, and authored a number of novels including "Honor from Youth" (1948), "Sailors" (1961), "Gamayun, the Prophetic Bird" (1963), "Olive Branch" (1965), "Director Tomilin" (1978) and "Secret Front" (1971–1978). Perventsev played a significant role in the creation of the Krasnodar writers' organization in 1947. In 1949 he was awarded two USSR State Prizes for the novel "Honor from Youth" and the screenplay for the film "The Third Strike." Arkady Alekseevich Perventsev passed away on October 30, 1981, and was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow.
Date of birth
26 January 1905
Date of death
30 October 1981
Occupation
Writer