Anatoli Stepanovich Ivanov (russian: Анато́лий Степа́нович Ивано́в; May 5, 1928 – May 31, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian writer known for his novels on rural topics. Ivanov was born on in the village of

Shemonaikha Shemonaikha ( kz, Шемонаиха, ''Şemonaiha''; russian: Шемонаиха) is a town in Shemonaikha District in East Kazakhstan Region of eastern Kazakhstan. It is located on the banks of the Uba River, a right tributary of the Irtysh Riv ...

(now in the

East Kazakhstan Region East Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, translit=Şyğys Qazaqstan oblysy; russian: Восточно-Казахстанская область, Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupi ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

). His parents, Marfa Loginovna and Stepan Ivanov, came from peasant farming families, but he was not involved in the farm, living in the district center where his father worked as head of the district department of Soyuzpechat'. In 1946-1950 he studied at the journalism faculty of

Kazakh State University Al-Farabi Kazakh National University ( kz, Әл-Фараби атындағы Қазақ ұлттық университеті, Äl-Farabi atyndağy Qazaq Ūlttyq Universitetı), also called KazGU or KazNU, is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan ...

. His creative activity began in 1948 as a journalist in the newspaper ''Priirtyshskaya pravda'' (

Semipalatinsk Semey ( kk, Семей, Semei, سەمەي; cyrl, Семей ), until 2007 known as Semipalatinsk (russian: Семипала́тинск) and in 1917–1920 as Alash-kala ( kk, Алаш-қала, ''Alaş-qala''), is a city in eastern Kazakhst ...

), served in the military, then was the editor of the regional newspaper ''Leninskoe znamya'' in the

Novosibirsk Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast (russian: Новосиби́рская о́бласть, ''Novosibirskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibirsk ...

. From 1954 he began to publish stories; his first collection was ''Alkiny pesni'' (Alka's songs, 1958). In 1958-1964 he was deputy editor of the magazine ''Sibirskie ogni''. In the late 1960s he moved to Moscow. The main themes of his works are the revolution in the Siberian villages, collectivization, and World War II. Two of his novels were filmed. ''Eternal Call'' was the base of the TV series with the same name.Что такое «план Даллеса»
/ref> Another TV series was based on his novel ''Shadows Disappear at Noon'' ('' :ru:Тени исчезают в полдень''). The two novels are represented in a monument at the author's birthplace Shemonaikha. Ivanov was a

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

and recipient of many other awards.

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А. С. Иванов в энциклопедии «Кругосвет»
* 1928 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century Russian screenwriters Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Eleventh convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Socialist realism writers Russian editors Russian male writers Russian screenwriters Soviet editors Soviet male writers Soviet screenwriters Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Molodaya Gvardiya (magazine) editors {{Russia-writer-stub