Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski

Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Николай Алексеевич Островский
Transl. :	Nikolaj Alekseevič Ostrovskij
Transcr. :	Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Микола Олексійович Островський
Transl. :	Mykola Oleksijovyč Ostrovs'kyj
Transcr. :	Mykola Olexijowytsch Ostrowskyj

Nikolai Ostrowski

Nikolai Ostrovsky (born September 16 ^{. Jul} / 29. September 1904 ^greg. In Viliya , volhynian governorate ; † 22. December 1936 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer and revolutionary .

Life

The young Ostrowski sympathized with the revolution early on . After the German occupation of his homeland in 1918, he joined the Komsomol , the Communist Youth Association, in 1919 . As a volunteer in the Russian Civil War , he went to the front and fought under Kotovsky in Budjonny's Red Cavalry Army . In 1920 Ostrowski was seriously wounded. He went blind in one eye and was demobilized. In 1924 he joined the Communist Party . Ostrowski, who fell ill with Bechterew's disease as a teenager , had been confined to bed since the end of 1926 and was blind in both eyes. He started dictating books and studying Marxism . In 1932 his first and best-known, largely autobiographical novel How the Steel Was Hardened (Как закалялась сталь) was published.

In 1935 Ostrowski received the Order of Lenin . Nikolai Ostrowski died in 1936. His three-part novel The Stormborn (Рождённые бурей) remained unfinished except for the first part.

In 1957 the feature film How Steel Was Hardened was released , which deals with part of his novel of the same name. In the Soviet Union it was performed under the title (Павел Корчагин, Pawel Korchagin) and had over 25 million viewers there.

Numerous streets, schools and kindergartens in the GDR were named in honor of Ostrowski . A few of them still bear his name today (Ostrowskistraße in Greifswald , Leipzig , Magdeburg , Wolgast ).

The asteroid of the main middle belt (2681) Ostrovskij is named after him.

Works

How Steel Was Hardened (1932) full online edition
The stormborn

literature

Raissa Ostrowskaja: Nikolai Ostrowski. Life and struggle of an indomitable. Biography. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1977
Semen A. Tregub: Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski. 1904 to 1936. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1953
Zenta Maurina : About Nikolai Ostrowski in: Breaking the iron bars , Verlag Maximilian Dietrich, Memmingen 1957, pp. 85–89.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Ostrowski - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski - Quotes

Individual evidence

^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 4, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1975 VF ₂ . Discovered 1975 Nov. 2 by TM Smirnova at Nauchnyj. "

personal data
SURNAME	Ostrowski, Nikolai Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Островский, Николай Алексеевич (Russian); Ostrovskij, Nikolaj Alekseevič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet writer and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilija , Volyn Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1936
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 4, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1975 VF ₂ . Discovered 1975 Nov. 2 by TM Smirnova at Nauchnyj. "