 First edition | |
| Author | Arkady Gaidar |
|---|---|
| Original title | Тимур и его команда |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Detskaya Literatura, Moscow |
Publication date | 1940 |
| Publication place | USSR |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-5-353-06022-2 |
Timur and His Squad (Russian: Тимур и его команда, romanized: Timur i yego komanda) is a short novel by Arkady Gaidar, written and first published in 1940. The book tells the story of a gang of village kids who sneak around secretly doing good deeds, protecting families whose fathers and husbands are in the Red Army, and doing battle against nasty hooligans. It had a huge impact upon the young Soviet audiences. Timurite movement (Timurovtsy), involving thousands of children, became a massive phenomenon all over the country. Timur and His Squad remained part of the curriculum in every Soviet school even up into the 1990s.[1][2]
The short novel was adapted into two feature films, Timur and His Team (1940) by Aleksandr Razumny and Timur and His Team (1976) by Aleksandr Blank and Sergei Linkov.
- ^ "Gaidar Arkady Petrovich". www.sovlit.net //Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
- ^ Ebin, F. Commentaries to Тимур и его команда. Works by Arkady Gaidar in 4 volumes. Detskaya Literatura. Moscow, 1964. Vol. 4. Pp 398-402.