Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov

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Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov ( Russian Михаил Аркадьевич Светлов * June 4 . Jul / 17th June  1903 greg. In Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire , now Dnipro , Ukraine ; † 28. September 1964 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer .

Svetlov was a member of the Komsomol and a volunteer in the Russian Civil War . He was the author of the popular ballad Granada (1926). In the 1930s he wrote several plays. During the Second World War he was a war correspondent.

Svetlov died in Moscow in 1964 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Svetlov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Biography , Chronos (Russian)
  2. Granada on: ruverses.com