Issai Kalistratowitsch Kalashnikov

Monument to Kalashnikov in the Sharaldai Kalashnikov Museum

In the Sharaldai Kalashnikov Museum

Issai Kalistratowitsch Kalashnikov ( Russian Исай Калистратович Калашников ; born August 9, 1931 in Sharaldai in Muchorschibirski rajon , Buryatia ; † May 30, 1980 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer.

Kalashnikov came from old-believing farmers of the Semeiskye community . He attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute from 1963 to 1965, and in 1963 he joined the Union of Writers of the USSR . His first work was published in 1954 with the story "Saschka" ("Сашка"). Later he dealt with the novellas "Niederwald" ("Подлесок", 1962), "Through the Swamps" ("Через топи", 1965) and "Research" ("Расследование", 1980) with the protection of the nature of Siberia . His novels "The Last Retreat" ("Последнее отступление", 1959) and "Magical Herb" ("Разрыв-трава", 1969) deal with the fate of Siberian Old Believers. His last, unfinished novel "No Walk" ("Не поле перейти") deals with the history of the Old Believers in Transbaikal . The best known, however, is Kalashnikov's picture of the life of the Mongols under Genghis Khan , which was published in 1985 under the title "Cruel Century" ("Жестокий век").

Kalashnikov was honored with the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Prize in 1969 . In the village of Scharaldai there is a small museum that traces the life of Kalashnikovs. Several streets and public places in Buryatia bear the names of Kalashnikovs.

Works

• Isaj Kalaschnikow and Marlene Hess (translator): Through the swamps . 2nd Edition. Knabe, Weimar 1978.

Web links

• Literature by and about Issai Kalistratowitsch Kalaschnikow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Э. А. Бальбуров: Калашников, Исай Калистратович . In: В.А. Ламин (Ed.): Историческая Энциклопедия Сибири . tape 2 . Издательский дом "Историческое наследие Сибири", 2010, ISBN 5-8402-0231-2 , p. 15 .