Between 1932 and 1990, the Russian city Nizhny Novgorod was named after which author?
"Gorkovskaya (Nizhny Novgorod Metro) Gorkovskaya () is a station on the Nizhny Novgorod Metro and is the northern terminus on the Avtozavodskaya line. It opened on November 4, 2012. It is also the only station on the right bank of the Oka River in the historic Upper City section of Nizhny Novgorod. The station is named for Gorky Square, under which the station is situated. Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod and the city was itself named ""Gorky"" until 1990. Construction of the station itself took four years and cost 20 billion rubles. The plans for a station in"
"Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky (, ; – 28 December 1950) was a Russian and Soviet short-story writer who described himself as being ""known for being unknown""; the bulk of his writings were published posthumously. Krzhizhanovsky was born in Kiev to a Polish family on 11 February 1887. Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells. Krzhizhanovsky was active among Moscow's literati in the 1920s, while working for Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theater. Several of Krzhizhanovsky's stories became known through"
"Vladimir Lichutin Vladimir Vladimirovich Lichutin (, born March 13, 1940, in Mezen, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet Russian writer, a major proponent of the derevenschiki movement of the late 20th century literature, best known for his ""Raskol"" (1990-1996) epic. Most of Lichutin's novels and novelets are based on the life of real people of the coastal White Sea areas of his native Pomorje region. Vladimir Lichutin was born in the town of Mezen, Arkhangelsk Oblast, into the family of a teacher. His father was killed in the Great Patriotic War and mother alone had to raise four"
"Vladimir Lichutin Vladimir Vladimirovich Lichutin (, born March 13, 1940, in Mezen, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet Russian writer, a major proponent of the derevenschiki movement of the late 20th century literature, best known for his ""Raskol"" (1990-1996) epic. Most of Lichutin's novels and novelets are based on the life of real people of the coastal White Sea areas of his native Pomorje region. Vladimir Lichutin was born in the town of Mezen, Arkhangelsk Oblast, into the family of a teacher. His father was killed in the Great Patriotic War and mother alone had to raise four"
"Dostoyevsky, Nikolay Gogol, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Nikolai Leskov, Ayn Rand, Yevgeni Zamyatin, Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandelstam, Nikolai Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Efremov, and Joseph Brodsky; the composers Anton Rubinstein, Aleksandr Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Andrei Petrov; the painters Ilya Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoy, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Aleksandr Benois, Kazimir Malevich, Léon Bakst, and Marc Chagall; the scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Semyonov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Yakov Frenkel, Zhores Alferov, Leonid Kantorovich, Mikhail Lomonosov, Ivan Pavlov, Ivan Sechenov, Heinrich Schliemann, Abram Ioffe, and"
"the late 1920s, sending engineers and mechanics, including future labour leader Walter Reuther. There were no permanent bridges over the Volga or Oka before the October Revolution in 1917. Temporary bridges were built during the trade fair. The first bridge over the Volga was started by the Moscow–Kazan Railway Company in 1914, but only finished in the Soviet Era when the railway to Kotelnich was opened for service in 1927. Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1868 as Alexey Maximovich Peshkov. In his novels he described the dismal life of the city proletariat. When he returned to the"
"Sergey Zalygin Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin (; December 6, 1913 in Durasovka, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire – April 19, 2000 in Moscow) was a Soviet writer, novelist. He was the first non-Communist Party editor-in-chief of the monthly literary magazine ""Novy Mir"" (1986–1988). Zalygin was also an academician of the Section of Humanities and Social Sciences (since December 7, 1991). Zalygin was widely known as an environmentalist, and a prominent critic of the Siberian Rivers Rerouting Project. In 1987, his short novel ""Povorot"" (The Turn) criticizing this government's project was published in ""Novy Mir"" Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich remembered that Zalygin had"
"Duncan, Charles Percy Snow, Flannery O'Connor and of some other authors were published in the former Soviet Union. He also translated ""Catch-22"", as well as Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Seamus Heaney. Andrey Kistyakovsky Andrey Andreyevich Kistyakovsky (, 11 October 1936, Moscow–30 June 1987) was a Russian translator and political activist. He translated belles-lettres and poetry from English to Russian and began publishing in 1967. Kistyakovsky's 1982 partial translation of ""The Lord of the Rings"" (together with Vladimir Muravyov) became the first official Russian translation and remains one of the most acclaimed Russian translations of the novel. Kistyakovsky hailed from"
"Anatoly Kuznetsov Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov (; August 18, 1929, Kiev – June 13, 1979, London) was a Russian-language Soviet writer who described his experiences in German-occupied Kiev during World War II in his internationally acclaimed novel """". The book was originally published in a censored form in 1966 in the Russian language. Kuznetsov was born to a Russian father and a Ukrainian mother, his passport stated that he was Russian. He grew up in the Kiev district of Kurenivka, in his own words ""a stone's throw from a vast ravine, whose name, Babi Yar, was once known only to locals."""
"Boris Zakhoder Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder (; 9 September 1918, Kagul, Bessarabia — 7 November 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian poet and children's writer. He is best known for his translations of ""Winnie-the-Pooh"", ""Mary Poppins"", ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and other children's classics. Boris Zakhoder was born to a Jewish family in Kagul (now Cahul, Moldova) and grew up in Moscow. His father was a lawyer, a graduate of Moscow University, and his grandfather was the first crown rabbi of Nizhny Novgorod. After he graduated from high school in 1935, Zakhoder studied at Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow and Kazan University"
"Chekhov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Zakrutkin, Fadeyev, Safronov, Kalinin, Alexander Pushkin, Maxim Gorky, Sergey Yesenin, Shushanik Kurghinian, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Yuri Zhdanov and Mikael Nalbandian. After visiting Rostov in 1831, Pushkin published his poem ""The Don"". The monument to Pushkin on Pushkin Boulevard is dedicated to these events. Maxim Gorky, worked as a docker in Rostov-on-Don in his youth. Vera Panova (1905–1973) was a Soviet era writer. Modern era includes such names as Danil Korezky and Tony Vilgotsky. A monument to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who lived in the city for 18 years and studied mathematics at Rostov University, is being planned"
"Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely (; – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, communist, and literary critic. His novel ""Petersburg"" was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century. Boris Bugaev was born in Moscow, into a prominent intellectual family. His father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a leading mathematician who is regarded as a founder of the Moscow school of mathematics. His mother was not only highly intelligent but a famous society beauty, and the focus of considerable gossip. Young"
"(Давние эпизоды, 1911) as well as numerous literary essays (on Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev and Maxim Gorky, among many others). Engelhardt married Larisa Garelina (1864–1942), Konstantin Balmont's first wife, and adopted her son, Nikolai Balmont (1890-1924). Their daughter Anna Engelhardt (1895—1942) became the second wife of Nikolai Gumilyov. Nikolai Alexandrovich Engelhardt (as well as his wife and daughter) died of starvation in besieged Leningrad in January 1942. Nikolai Engelhardt Nikolai Alexandrovich Engelhardt (, 15 February 1867, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — January 1942, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian writer, critic, poet, journalist (associated mainly with Alexey Suvorin's ""Novoye"
"in 1979 from his third heart attack. Anatoly Kuznetsov Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov (; August 18, 1929, Kiev – June 13, 1979, London) was a Russian-language Soviet writer who described his experiences in German-occupied Kiev during World War II in his internationally acclaimed novel """". The book was originally published in a censored form in 1966 in the Russian language. Kuznetsov was born to a Russian father and a Ukrainian mother, his passport stated that he was Russian. He grew up in the Kiev district of Kurenivka, in his own words ""a stone's throw from a vast ravine, whose name, Babi"
"- 27 January 1944), was published by Harvill in 1995 in translation by Alan Myers. Lidiya Ginzburg Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg (; March 18, 1902, Odessa, Russian Empire – July 17, 1990, Leningrad, USSR) was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad. She was born in Odessa in 1902 and moved to Leningrad in 1922. She enrolled there in the State Institute of the History of the Arts, studying with Yury Tynyanov and Boris Eikhenbaum, two major figures of Russian Formalism. Ginzburg survived the purges, the 900-day Leningrad blockade, and the anti-Jewish campaign"
"were named after him. His honors include Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Medal ""For the Defence of Moscow"". In 1969, his daughter opened a private museum in his honor, at his former ""dacha"" at Cherkizovo, near Pushkino, Moscow Oblast. Alexey Novikov-Priboy Aleksey Silych Novikov-Priboi ( 12 March 1877 – 29 April 1944) was the pen-name of A. S. Novikov, an ethnic Russian writer in the Soviet Union, noted for his stories with a nautical theme. Novikov-Priboi was the second son of a peasant family from Matveyevskoye, Spassk Uyezd, Tambov Governorate. His mother, of Polish descent, had hoped"
"Nikolay Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (, – ) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about peasant Russia made him the hero of liberal and radical circles of Russian intelligentsia, as represented by Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He is credited with introducing into Russian poetry ternary meters and the technique of dramatic monologue (""On the Road"", 1845). As the editor of several literary journals, notably ""Sovremennik"", Nekrasov was also singularly successful and influential. Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was born in Nemyriv (now in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine), Podolia Governorate. His father Alexey Sergeyevich Nekrasov"
"and the organization of excursions. He is known as the author of the memoir ""From the Thoughts About the Past"" published in 1992. There was a reading of Antsiferov's works in Leningrad in 1989. In 1995 the Antsiferov Prize was established for better contemporary work on the city's history. The Moscow ""Antsiferov Reading "" took place in September 2012. In 2013 a street was built in the city of Pushkin and named Antsiferov Street. Nikolai Antsiferov Nikolai Pavlovich Antsiferov (; – September 2, 1958) was a Soviet historian and scholar of culture and local lore. Antsiferov was born in the"
"to New York City in 1941. He died in 1959 in New York. Shneur had two children: the American Neurochemist and Biophysicist, Elie Alexis, and Renée Rebecca, who became the Spanish dancer Laura Toledo. Zalman Shneur Zalman Shneur (born Shneur Zalkind; 1887 – 20 February 1959) was a prolific bilingual Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Shneur was born in Shklov (Škłoŭ) in Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1887. His parents were Isaac Zalkind and Feiga Sussman. At age 13, he left for Odessa, the center of literature"
"Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy () ( – ), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy ""The Death of Ivan the Terrible"" (1866), ""Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich"" (1868), and ""Tsar Boris"" (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (""History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev"", ""The Dream of Councillor Popov"") and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella"
"writers and activists: The Coast of Utopia (2002) Belinsky Street and Belinsky Lane, close to Red Square in Moscow, were named after Belinsky from 1920–1994. Vissarion Belinsky Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (; – ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of poet and publisher Nikolay Nekrasov and his popular magazine ""Sovremennik"". Born in Sveaborg (now part of Helsinki), Vissarion Belinsky lived in the town of Chembar (now Belinsky in Belinsky District of Penza Oblast) and in Penza, where he studied in (1825–1829). In 1829–1832 he was a student of"
"also came also from children's writer Agniya Barto. Starting in the 1930s, Chukovsky lived in the writers' village of Peredelkino near Moscow, where he is now buried. For his works on the life of Nekrasov he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree in philology. He also received the Lenin Prize in 1962 for his book, ""Mastery of Nekrasov"" and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1962. Korney Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and"
"aged 80, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Friedrich Neznansky Friedrich Neznansky (Russian: Фридрих Евсеевич Незнанский; 27 September 1932 – 14 February 2013) was a popular Russian crime novelist. Neznansky was born in Rahachow Raion, Belarus. He was a lawyer by education, practiced law in Moscow, and was an investigator at the Moscow Prosecutor General’s office for fifteen years. Although Neznansky’s crime novels are light fiction, the political and social currents of the day can be sensed in them, as well as everyday Russian realities. Neznansky's novels have been translated in several languages and some of them have been adapted for television. Neznansky"
"() (1933-2015), Leonid Sokov () (1941-2018), Viktor Pivovarov, Ülo Sooster, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Yakovlev (1934-1998), Anatoly Zverev (1931-1986), Taron Garibyan (1940-2001), Dmitri Plavinsky (1937-2012), Lidiya Masterkova () (1927-2008), Vladimir Nemukhin (1925-2016), Eduard Steinberg, Igor Novikov, Michail Grobman, Lev Kropivnitsky (1922-1994), Valentina Kropivnitskaya () (1924-2008), Mikhail Odnoralov, Oleg Tselkov, Alexander Yulikov (b. 1943), Andrey Grositsky (1934-2017), Vasily Sitnikov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev (1925-1995), Leonid Lamm, Igor Shelkovsky, and others. From St. Petersburg (Leningrad): Yuri Dyshlenko () (1936-1995), Evgeny Rukhin () (1943-1976), Aleksandr Arefiev () (1931-1978), Alek Rapoport () (1933-1997), Timur Novikov (1958-2002), Anatoly Basin () (b. 1936), Anatoly Belkin () (b. 1953), Yuri"
"Vladimir Voinovich Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (, 26 September 1932 – 27 July 2018) was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic ""The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin"" and the dystopian ""Moscow 2042"". He was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship by Soviet authorities in 1980 but later rehabilitated and moved back to Moscow in 1990. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he continued to be an outspoken critic of Russian politics under the rule of Vladimir Putin. Voinovich was born in Stalinabad,"
"Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (; , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. Nabokov's ""Lolita"" (1955), his most noted novel in English, was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; ""Pale Fire"" (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, ""Speak, Memory"" (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was a finalist for"
"Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as William Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller. Olga Chyumina Olga Nikolayevna Chyumina (, 7 January 1865, Novgorod, Russian Empire, - 8 September 1909, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist, playwright and translator. Having debuted as a published author in 1882, she contributed regularly to ""Vestnik Evropy"", ""Russkaya Mysl"", ""Severny Vestnik"", ""Russkoye Bogatstvo"". Her popular books of poetry included ""Poems"" (1897), ""New Poems"" (1905) and ""Autumn Whirlwinds"" (Осенние вихри, 1908). During the 1905 Revolution, she wrote satirical, anti-Tsarist 'feuilletons in verse' (using the pen names Cat the Fighter and Optimist) which"
"Bobyshov, """"Northern spring"""" by Nikolai Galakhov, """"Stolby Nature Sanctuary"""" by Yakov Golubev, """"Birch alley"""" by Igor Grabar, """"Stormy day"""", """"Green rye"""", """"On the Oka River"""", """"Windy day"""", """"In beginning of October"""" by Aleksei Gritsai, """"Kizhi"""" by Alexei Eriomin, """"Gorokhovaya Street in Leningrad"""", """"A Former Sennaya Square in Leningrad"""" by Mikhail Kaneev, """"Kosogorsky Steel Works"""", """"Kosogorsky Steel Works. In the Evening"""" by Alexander Kuprin, """"Spring day. The Lilac is bloom"""" by Yuri Kugach, """"Ostrovsky Square in Leningrad"""" by Ivan Lavsky, """"Northern village"""", """"A Northern river"""" by Nikolai Lomakin, """"Rural landscape"""" by Gavriil Malish, """"Native places"""" by Eugene Maltsev, """"Veliky Novgorod"""" by"
"He died, aged 81, in Leningrad, USSR. Ieronim Yasinsky Ieronim Ieronimovich Yasinsky (; April 18 (30), 1850 - December 31, 1931) was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. Among the numerous pseudonyms he used, were Maxim Belinsky, Nezavisimy (The Independent One) and M.Tchunosov. Yasinsky was born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the lawyer and landlord Ieronim Yasinsky, a nobleman of Polish origins, and Olga Maksimovna Belinskaya, the daughter of a 1812 Borodino hero Colonel Maxim Belinsky (whose name he later used as a literary pseudonym). From the age of eleven, Yasinsky began to write verses and"
"Gennady Gor Gennady Samoilovich Gor () (January 15, 1907 in Verkhneudinsk, Siberia - January 6, 1981 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian writer and science fiction author of the Soviet Union. The son of a Jewish family exiled to Siberia, Gor went in 1923 to Petrograd, where he studied history and philology. Here he took up with representatives of the avant-garde literature of the time, including Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, the heads of the avant-garde group OBERIU. As early as 1925 he began to publish, in addition to popular science texts about the life and culture of northern Siberian"
"Moscow, 1910). ""Petersburg"" ""The Silver Dove"" ""Kotik Letaev"" ""The Complete Short Stories"" ""Selected Essays of Andrey Bely"" ""The Dramatic Symphony"" ""The Christened Chinaman"" ""In the Kingdom of Shadows"" ""The Moscow Eccentric"" Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely (; – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, communist, and literary critic. His novel ""Petersburg"" was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century. Boris Bugaev was born in Moscow, into a prominent intellectual family. His father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a leading mathematician"
"Boris Chichibabin Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin (, ; 9 January 1923, Kremenchuk – 15 December 1994, Kharkiv; born Polushin, ) was a Soviet poet and a laureat of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers. He lived in Kharkiv, and in the course of three decades became one of the most famous and best-loved members of the artistic intelligentsia of the city, i.e., from the 1950s to 1980s. From the end of the 1950s, his poetry was widely distributed throughout the Soviet Union as samizdat. Official recognition came only at the end of his"
"on his work, see Old Novgorod dialect, Novgorod Codex, and the Tale of Igor's Campaign. Andrey Zaliznyak Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (; 29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, dialectology and grammar. In recent years he paid much attention to the popularizing of linguistics and to the struggle against pseudoscience. Zaliznyak was born in Moscow and studied in the Moscow University before moving to the Sorbonne to further his studies with André Martinet. He was admitted into the Soviet Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member in 1987. Ten years later, he"