Arkady Petrovich Gaidar

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Arkady Gaidar ( Russian Аркадий Петрович Гайдар , actually Golikov * January 9 jul. / 22. January  1904 greg. In lgov , Kursk, Russian Empire ; † 26. October 1941 at Lepljawo, Kiev Oblast , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , like ) was a Soviet youth writer.

Life

Arkadi Gaidar grew up in Arsamas . His parents were involved in the revolutionary events of 1905 .

From 1918, Gaidar was initially the youngest commander of a Red Army company in the Russian Civil War and, at the age of 16, the youngest commander of a regiment. In 1924 he left the army due to illness.

As a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda , Gaidar was sent to the front after the German invasion of the Soviet Union . After his unit was surrounded by Germans, he joined a partisan unit and became a machine gunner. He fell in a skirmish with German troops near Lepljawo (today Lyaplawa, Kaniw Rajon , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukraine ).

His most famous work Timur und seine Trupp (1940) describes a youth group that helps the left-behind women and families of frontline soldiers in a Russian village with everyday things. The book about the hero Timur (the name of his son, who was born in 1926) was the model for the “ Timur movement ”, in which this willingness to help should be implemented in everyday life - according to the lexicon of world literature, “a great patriotic activity ... 'Gaidar traditions' were trend-setting for the development of a socialist children's and youth literature. ”The book was widespread in the later socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe.

His grandson Yegor Gaidar was the Russian Prime Minister in 1992. The asteroid (1835) Gajdariya is named after Arkadi Gaidar.

Works

  • 1926: The Red Rider (РВС)
  • 1930: The School of Life / The Baptism by Fire (Школа мужества)
  • 1931: Shelter No. 4 (четвертый блиндаж)
  • 1932: Far countries (Дальние страны)
  • 1935: The War Secret (Военная тайна)
  • 1938: The Fate of the Drummer (Судьба барабанщика)
  • 1939: Tschuk and Gek (Чук и Гек), see: Chuk Island
  • 1940: Timur and his squad (Тимур и его команда)

Edited volumes with stories

  • The man with the star (German 1968)
  • The time of the drummer (German 1968)
  • The Trail of the Bold (German 1969)

Film adaptations

Web links

Commons : Arkadi Gaidar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of World Literature. Foreign language writers and anonymous works from the beginning to the present. Edited by Professor Dr. Gerhard Steiner with the collaboration of numerous specialist scientists. Volksverlag Weimar 1963, page 234.
personal data
SURNAME Gaidar, Arkady Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гайдар, Аркадий Петрович (Russian); Golikov, Arkady Petrovich; Голиков, Аркадий Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet youth writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Lgow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1941
Place of death near Lepljawo, Kiev Oblast , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic