Grigory Baklanov

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Soviet Russian novelist and short story writer (1923-2009)

WritersLived 1923 to 2009 · aged 86

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Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was a Soviet and Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the literary magazine Znamya.

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USSR State Prize

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Red Star

Order of the Badge of Honour

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

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Pyotr IvashutinAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"

Mikhail Stepanovich ShumilovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

Nikolai GulayevAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"

Dmitri SukhorukovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"

Vasily Vasilyevich GlagolevAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"

Alexander KoldunovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

About this person

Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was a Soviet and Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the literary magazine Znamya. Becoming the editor in 1986, during Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, Baklanov published the works that were previously banned by Soviet censors; his drive for glasnost boosted the magazine's circulation to 1 million copies.