Grigory Baklanov | |
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| Born | Grigory Yakovlevich Friedman 11 September 1923 Voronezh, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Died | 23 December 2009 (aged 86) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Бакла́нов) (11 September 1923 – 23 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the literary magazine Znamya. Becoming the editor in 1986, during Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, Baklanov published the works that were previously banned by Soviet censors; his drive for glasnost boosted the magazine's circulation to 1 million copies.[1]
- ^ Russian author Grigory Baklanov dies, CBC News, December 23, 2009.