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The Newcomer
The patriotic story of a girl leaving agricultural college to become a chief agronomist at a machine-and-tractor station.
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Galina Nikolayeva
9 books2 followersGalina Evgenievna Nikolaeva (Russian: Гали́на Евге́ньевна Никола́ева) was a Soviet writer novelist, playwright, poetess, journalist. She was a pharmacologist by profession. She was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1951 for her novel Harvest.
Galina Volyanskaya was born into the family of the lawyer Evgeny Ivanovich Volyanskiy; mother, Miletina Venediktovna, was a teacher. For some time she lived with her mother in Pskov. In 1915, they were evacuated to Tomsk to stay with relatives, where she attended a kindergarten at Tikhonravova's gymnasium. In 1918-23. lived with her parents in Gorny Altai, Biysk, Barnaul. After she studied at the city school number 3 in Novosibirsk, there in 1927 her parents divorced.
In 1929, Galina entered the Omsk Medical Institute and married Alexander Portnov, whom she divorced a few years later. Soon she transferred to the Gorky Medical Institute, after which in 1935 she was left in graduate school and worked as an assistant in the Department of Pharmacology. In 1937, her father and ex-husband were arrested, and she was forced to leave her studies. In February 1939, the newspaper "Gorkovskaya Kommuna" published her first poems "About the girl and the Red Army soldier" under the pseudonym - G. Nikolaeva. In 1939-42. taught at the Gorky Medical College.
During the Great Patriotic War, G. Volyanskaya was granted the status of a "volunteer physician in the Red Army". From the summer of 1942 she worked as a military doctor on the medical transport ship No. 56 "Composer Borodin" of the Stalingrad evacuation station No. 73 of the evacuation hospital No. 56 (renamed in 1942 into the "medical transport ship STS-56"), assigned to the city of Gorky. The steamer was killed during an air raid under bombs in Stalingrad. Paramedic G. Volyanskaya at the time of the bombing accidentally survived. During the evacuation of the wounded from Stalingrad, she was shell-shocked. Then the newspaper "Gorkovskaya Kommuna" wrote about her heroism, 1942, October 16. In 1943-1945. worked in hospitals in the North Caucasus in Nalchik (evacuation hospital No. 2442).
The front-line impressions of the writer formed the basis of the story "The Death of the Army Commander", on which she began to work in early August 1945. At the same time, Galina Nikolaeva's first book, Poems, was published in Nalchik (Kabgosizdat, 87 pp.). From 1945 to 1963 she lived and worked in Moscow. The first publications in the central periodicals took place in the Znamya magazine (verses - № 2, 4; story "The death of the commander", № 10), in which she was assisted by NS. Tikhonov and Vs. Vishnevsky. In 1946 she became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, in the magazine "Murzilka" the "Tale of the Magpie" and "About the Thief-Sparrow and the Mouse-Thief" were published; a collection of poems "Through the Fire" was published.
Galina Volyanskaya was born into the family of the lawyer Evgeny Ivanovich Volyanskiy; mother, Miletina Venediktovna, was a teacher. For some time she lived with her mother in Pskov. In 1915, they were evacuated to Tomsk to stay with relatives, where she attended a kindergarten at Tikhonravova's gymnasium. In 1918-23. lived with her parents in Gorny Altai, Biysk, Barnaul. After she studied at the city school number 3 in Novosibirsk, there in 1927 her parents divorced.
In 1929, Galina entered the Omsk Medical Institute and married Alexander Portnov, whom she divorced a few years later. Soon she transferred to the Gorky Medical Institute, after which in 1935 she was left in graduate school and worked as an assistant in the Department of Pharmacology. In 1937, her father and ex-husband were arrested, and she was forced to leave her studies. In February 1939, the newspaper "Gorkovskaya Kommuna" published her first poems "About the girl and the Red Army soldier" under the pseudonym - G. Nikolaeva. In 1939-42. taught at the Gorky Medical College.
During the Great Patriotic War, G. Volyanskaya was granted the status of a "volunteer physician in the Red Army". From the summer of 1942 she worked as a military doctor on the medical transport ship No. 56 "Composer Borodin" of the Stalingrad evacuation station No. 73 of the evacuation hospital No. 56 (renamed in 1942 into the "medical transport ship STS-56"), assigned to the city of Gorky. The steamer was killed during an air raid under bombs in Stalingrad. Paramedic G. Volyanskaya at the time of the bombing accidentally survived. During the evacuation of the wounded from Stalingrad, she was shell-shocked. Then the newspaper "Gorkovskaya Kommuna" wrote about her heroism, 1942, October 16. In 1943-1945. worked in hospitals in the North Caucasus in Nalchik (evacuation hospital No. 2442).
The front-line impressions of the writer formed the basis of the story "The Death of the Army Commander", on which she began to work in early August 1945. At the same time, Galina Nikolaeva's first book, Poems, was published in Nalchik (Kabgosizdat, 87 pp.). From 1945 to 1963 she lived and worked in Moscow. The first publications in the central periodicals took place in the Znamya magazine (verses - № 2, 4; story "The death of the commander", № 10), in which she was assisted by NS. Tikhonov and Vs. Vishnevsky. In 1946 she became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, in the magazine "Murzilka" the "Tale of the Magpie" and "About the Thief-Sparrow and the Mouse-Thief" were published; a collection of poems "Through the Fire" was published.
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