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Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky
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Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky – a Soviet writer, author of the novel "How the Steel Was Tempered". Nikolai Ostrovsky attended a parish school and finished it at the age of nine. In 1916 the future writer entered a higher primary school and began to work. In those years Ostrovsky joined the Bolsheviks, took part in the underground struggle against the German occupiers, and worked as a courier for the revolutionary committee. In 1919 Ostrovsky joined the Komsomol and went to the front. After a year of service he was seriously wounded, and after demobilization he joined a Communist detachment that fought banditry.
In the 1920s Ostrovsky graduated from the electrotechnical school at the Kyiv railway workshops, worked as an electrical fitter in Western Ukraine, and took part in the construction of a railway line. In 1922 he suffered severely from typhus and polyarthritis, which left him disabled at eighteen. Despite this, Ostrovsky continued to work until 1927, when illness confined him to bed.
Ostrovsky's literary career began with the novella "Born of the Storm", the manuscript of which was lost. He became known after the publication of the first part of the novel "How the Steel Was Tempered", published by the Young Guard publishing house in 1930. The second part, released in 1934, gained wide recognition after Mikhail Koltsov's essay "Courage" was published in the newspaper Pravda. In 1935 Ostrovsky was awarded the Order of Lenin, was given a house in Sochi and an apartment in Moscow, and was granted the rank of brigade commissar. Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky died on 22 December 1936 in Moscow, having managed to complete only the first part of his new work.
Date of birth
29 September 1904
Date of death
22 December 1936
Occupation
Writer