Alexander Borisovich Chakovsky. Russian writer, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes of the USSR. He is the author of the novels "It's Morning Already", "A Year of Life", "The Roads We Choose", "Blockade", "Victory", "Unfinished Portrait"; trilogy "It was in Leningrad", stories, books "Blessed are the poor in spirit?", "Literature, politics, life", etc.