Yuri Bondarev

1924 - 2020

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movement: socialist realism

genre: novel, short novel, short story, essay

country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Orenburg Higher Anti-aircraft Missile School, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

occupation: writer, screenwriter, prosaist, film screenwriter

award received: USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Medal "For Courage", Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Alexander Fadeyev Medal, Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, Lenin Prize, 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 Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "70 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", Star of People's Friendship, Guards unit, Wound stripe, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, Mikhail Sholokhov International Award for Literature and Science, Great literary prize of Russia, Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, Patriarchal Literary Prize, Order of the Patriotic War, Pentru order of courage, Order of the Badge of Honour, Honorary citizen of Volgograd

Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Бондарев, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise Liberation (1968–71). Source: Wikipedia (en)