Nikolai Ostrovsky

1904 - 1936

genre: prose

country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union

native language: Russian

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Iakov Sverdlov Communist University

occupation: writer

award received: Order of Lenin, Lenin Komsomol Prize

Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Остро́вский; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Олексі́йович Остро́вський; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered. Source: Wikipedia (en)