Fyodor Gladkov

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Russian-Soviet writer

JournalistsLived 1883 to 1958 · aged 75

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Fame49.5

Momentum0.7

Languages22

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Also inDeutsch

Photos 2

Gladkov's Cement was published in a multitude of editions, including this 1928 Finnish translation from Astoria, Oregon, USA.

Awards 4

Stalin Prize

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Connected to Fyodor 5

Yuri BelovAlso in Flames on the Volga (1956)

Grigori RoshalAlso in Flames on the Volga (1956)

Hayri Emir-zadeAlso in Cement (1927)

Leonid TraubergAlso in Flames on the Volga (1956)

Vladimir VilnerAlso in Cement (1927)

Journalists born in the 1880s 1

Pavlo Shandruk49.7

About this person

Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov was a Soviet and Russian socialist realist writer, best known for his 1925 novel Cement. Gladkov joined a Marxist group in 1904, and in 1905 went to Tiflis and was arrested there for revolutionary activities. He was sentenced to three years' exile. He then moved to Novorossiysk. Among other positions, he served as the editor of the newspaper Krasnoye Chernomorye, secretary of the journal Novy Mir, special correspondent for Izvestia, and director of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow from 1945 to 1948. He received the Stalin Prize for his literary accomplishments, and is considered a classic writer of Soviet Socialist Realist literature.