Anatoly Rybakov

1911 - 1998

country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Russian University of Transport

occupation: writer

award received: Stalin Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Battle Merit", Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw", Medal "For the Capture of Berlin", Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (Russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в; 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1911 – 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird. One of the last of his works was his memoir The Novel of Memoirs (Роман-Воспоминание) telling about all the different people (from Stalin and Yeltsin, to Okudzhava and Tendryakov) he met during his long life. Writer Maria Rybakova is his granddaughter. Source: Wikipedia (en)