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Boris Gorbatov - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Russian Soviet writer, screenwriter.
July 15, 1908, Petromarievsky mine, Lugansk district, Yekaterinoslav province, Russian Empire - January 20, 1954, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.
In 1922, he published his first story, “Sated and Hungry,” in the All-Union Stoker newspaper. Gained fame with the story "Cell" (1928), dedicated to the life of the Komsomol members of the 1920s.
Since the 1930s. Gorbatov worked as an essayist in the editorial office of Pravda, published books of essays "Mountain Campaign" (1932), "Comintern" (1932), "Masters" (1933). The story “My Generation” (1933) conveys the revolutionary enthusiasm of the first five-year plan, the book of stories “The Ordinary Arctic” (1940) conveys the heroism of the exploration of the North. During the Great Patriotic War, Gorbatov was a military commander. His talent was clearly revealed in journalism: "Letters to a Comrade" (1941-1942), "Alexei Kulikov, Soldier ..." (1942), "Stories about a Soldier's Soul". The story "The Unconquered" (1943; State Prize of the USSR, 1946) depicts with great force the patriotism and unbending will of the Soviet people.
Among the post-war works of Gorbatov are essays "In Japan and the Philippines" (1946-1947; published under the title "Man from the class" this ", 1953), the script" Donetsk miners "(1950, together with V.M. Alekseev, State USSR Prize, 1952), as well as the screenplays "The Road to Berlin", "It was in Donbass", "Court of Nations". The first book of the novel "Donbass" (1951), dedicated to Soviet youth of the 1930s, stands out for its romantic emotion. and the birth of the Stakhanov movement. After Gorbatov's death, his play One Night (1956) and the unfinished book Alexei Gaidash (1955) were published. The peculiarities of Gorbatov's writing style are a hot, emotional assessment of what is happening, a romantic uplifting tone. His main characters are miners, whose work and life he knew well.
He was married to film actress Tatyana Okunevskaya and actress of the Theater of Satire Nina Arkhipova.
He died at the age of 46 from a stroke. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (site No. 2).
