Eduard Arkadyevich Assadov

Eduard Arkadjewitsch Assadow ( Russian Эдуард Аркадьевич Асадов ; born September 7, 1923 in Mary , Turkmenistan ; † April 21, 2004 in Odintsovo , Russia ) was a Russian poet and prose writer.

Life

Assadov was born on September 7, 1923 in Mary in what was then the ASSR Turkestan to an Armenian family. His parents were teachers; After the death of his father in 1929, he moved with his mother to Sverdlovsk , where his grandfather Ivan (Owanes) Kalustowitsch Kurdow lived. When he was young, he was the secretary of Nikolai Gavrilowitsch Tschernyshevsky .

In 1939 Assadov moved to Moscow , where he graduated from school in 1941. When World War II broke out a week later , he volunteered. At the front he initially worked as a mortar shooter , later he commanded a battery of Katyushas on the North Caucasus Front and the 4th Ukrainian Front .

On the night of May 3rd to 4th, 1944, Assadov suffered a severe facial injury from a mine splinter in the battle for Sevastopol near the village of Belbek . Despite this injury, he managed to bring a truck with ammunition to the battery. However, despite lengthy treatment, the doctors were unable to save his eyes, which resulted in him having to wear a black half- mask until the end of his life .

In 1946 Assadov enrolled at the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute , which he graduated with flying colors in 1951. In the same year his first volume of poetry "Swetlaja doroga" (Russian "Светлая дорога" - "Light Path") was published and he was accepted into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Writers' Union of the USSR .

The writer spent his last years in the village of Krasnovidovo near Moscow. He died on April 21, 2004 in Odintsovo and was buried in Moscow in the Kunzewo Cemetery.

Works

Assadov published 47 books between 1956 and 2001. He also worked at various times as a consultant for the magazines Literaturnaja Gazeta , Ogonyok and Molodaja Gwardija .

Selection of some works

• U ljubwi ne byvaet rasluk (Russian У любви не бывает разлук ) - ISBN 5-699-02419-0
• Sobranie sotschinenij v schesti tomach (Russian Собрание сочинений в шести томах ) - ISBN 5-86436-331-6
• Doroga w krylatoe savtra (Russian Дорога в крылатое завтра ) - ISBN 5-699-04893-6
• Kogda stichi ulybajutsja (Russian Когда стихи улыбаются ) - ISBN 5-699-06268-8

Awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th class for "special merits in the development of the fatherland's literature"
• Order of Honor for "special contribution to patriotic literature"
• Order of Friendship between Nations for "merits in the development of patriotic literature and the consolidation of international cultural relations"
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class
• Order of the Red Star
• Two medals of honor from the Soviet Union
• Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
• Medal "For the victory over Germany"
• Honorary Citizen of Sevastopol

On November 18, 1998, Assadov was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" by the Permanent Presidium of the People's Deputies Congress.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Поэт Эдуард Асадов. Биография. September 7, 2007, Retrieved June 2, 2019 (Russian). 
2. ↑ Внучка Эдуарда Асадова: "Свою жену Галину Валентиновну дедушка очень любил, хотя ... ни разу не» ви разу не »видел. Retrieved June 2, 2019 (Russian). 
3. ^ Resolution of the President of the Russian Federation of February 7, 2004 № 156 ( Memento of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Resolution of the President of the Russian Federation of September 7, 1998 № 1056 (Russian)
5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Resolution of the President of the Russian Federation of October 20, 1993 № 1674 (Russian)

Web links

• all poems by Eduard Assadow ( Memento from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• http://grani.ru/Culture/Literature/m.67885.html
• http://www.lib.ru/POEZIQ/ASADOW/