Baklanov Gregory - biography and creativity

Today we will tell you who Grigory Baklanov is. "Forever nineteen" - this is one of the most famous books of this Russian and Soviet writer, its essence we will outline a little lower. The author is a representative of "lieutenant prose".

Biography

Baklanov Gregory was born in Voronezh in 1923, on September 11. Comes from a Jewish family. My father's name was Yakov Minayevich. He was an employee. My mother's name was Ida Grigorievna, she was a dentist. After the death of the parents of Baklanov, Gregory was brought up by his uncle's family. Children's and later youthful years the future writer spends in Voronezh.

After graduating from the 9th grade, he entered the aviation technical school. After the war began, he worked as a fitter at the aircraft factory. The enterprise produced the Il-2 attack aircraft. To become a student in a military school, he passed all the exams for the tenth grade externally. In 1941 he was called to the service of the Voronezh RVC. He studied at the artillery school. In 1942 he joined the CPSU (b). Since 1943, he fought in the South-Western and Third Ukrainian Fronts. Participated in battles in Austria, Hungary, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. In 1943, in the vicinity of the city of Zaporozhye was wounded.

For participation in the December battles of 1944 under Székesfehérvár he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Also awarded with medals for the capture of Vienna and Budapest. He received the Order of the Patriotic War.

By January 1945, he became a lieutenant, commander of a fire platoon of 1232 artillery regiments, 115 Krivoy Rog brigades. He finished the war in the rank of chief of intelligence in the artillery division.

The writer recalled that when he returned home from the front, he was only 21 years old. At that moment, he felt that the main thing in his life was done. According to him, he felt incredible ease. Gregory did not want to make any career and he did not care what would happen next. However, in 1951 he graduated from the Literary Institute named after Gorky. Soon he began to publish. On the pages of the magazine "Peasant Woman" there was a story "A reprimand". In 1956 he was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR.

The first stories devoted to the theme of war - "The Land of the Land" and "South of the Main Impact" - brought the writer fame, but were criticized. Subsequently, the works of our hero came out with great difficulty. The most difficult is the fate of the novel entitled "July 41". He describes the destruction of the officer corps in the Red Army by Stalin. After the first printing of the work "July 41 years", it was not formally forbidden, but it was not reprinted for twelve years.

Bibliography

Baklanov Grigory Yakovlevich created an amazing work "Forever nineteen years old." The book tells of people who did not return from the war. It also raises questions of immortality, youth, life, love. The pages of the work describe the time when from the one hundred left to fight, no more than three returned.

Also the author's pen belongs to the following works: "In Bullfinches", "The Land of the Earth", "Karpukhin", "Friends", "Canada", "Literary Portraits", "My Man", "My General".

Reviews

Literary critic Lev Oborin notes that Baklanov Gregory created characters who faced war and preserved heroism, courage and honesty towards themselves. The authoritative Soviet writer Vyacheslav Kondratiev emphasizes that the "Land of the Earth", written by our hero, is audacious, because with all the external calm she compresses the reader's heart, showing him the events as they really were.

Awards and Prizes

Baklanov Gregory was awarded several orders: "For Service to the Fatherland", "Labor Red Banner", "Badge of Honor". He was awarded numerous medals, including: "For Victory", "For the Taking of Budapest", "For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth". He received the prize of K. Simonov. He was awarded a pension of the President of Russia. Received the Nurek Hydropower Plant Prize.