Boris Gorbatov

Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet Russian novelist.^[1] Born in the Donbass region in the Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.

Gorbatov is best known for his novels Donbass and Taras' Family, both of which were translated into English. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize.

He was married to the actress Tatiana Okunevskaya and then the actress Nina Arkhipova. He died in 1954 and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

References

↑ War, the Holocaust and Stalinism, by Shimon Redlic

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