Grigory Baklanov
Russian novelist and short story writer
Died when: 86 years 103 days (1035 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (Russian: ?????´??? ?´???????? ?????´???) (11 September 1923 – 23 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the literary magazine Znamya.
Becoming the editor in 1986, during Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, Baklanov published the works that were previously banned by Soviet censors; his drive for glasnost boosted the magazine's circulation to 1 million copies.
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