Died 1936-12-22.
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Nikolai Ostrovsky
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.
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culture · Soviet-Ukrainian writer (1904–1936) · writer · also Nikolai Ostrovsky, Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky, Nikolay Alekseyevich Ostrovsky, Ostrovsky
Born 16 September 1904 · Died 22 December 1936 · Q271853
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1936· 2 entries
“Mais vale consumir-se a trabalhar um ano do que vegetar cinco anos numa cama de hospital.”
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1935).
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1930· 1 entry
Began work on his first novel, How the Steel Was Tempered, which became renowned and influential in the Communist world
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at Iakov Sverdlov Communist University (1927).
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1925· 1 entry
With his health rapidly declining, he went to Kharkiv for medical treatment and in May 1926 he went to a sanatorium in the Crimea
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1923· 1 entry
Was appointed Commissar of the Red Army's Second Training Battalion and Komsomol secretary for Berezdiv in western Ukraine
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1921· 1 entry
Began working in railway workshops of Kiev as an electrician and as the secretary of the local Komsomol
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1920· 2 entries
Was reportedly wounded near Lviv and contracted typhus
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Career landmark: wound.
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1917· 1 entry
At the age of thirteen he became a Bolshevik party activist
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1914· 1 entry
His family moved to the railroad town of Shepetivka (today in Khmelnytskyi Oblast) where Ostrovsky started working in the kitchens at the railroad station, a timber yard, then becoming a stoker's mate and then an electri
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-09-16.
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