Ilya Petrovich Shtemler ( Izrail Pinkhusovich Shtemler; russian: Илья Штемлер; 18 January 1933 – 3 December 2022) was a
Soviet and Russian writer.
Biography
Shtemler was born in
Baku
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on 18 January 1933. He graduated from the Baku Industrial Institute in 1957, and then worked as an engineer, first in the oil industry in the
Volga region and then in the "Geologorazvedka" factory in
Leningrad, the city which eventually became his second home. Shtemler's novels ''Univermag'' (''The Department Store''), ''Poezd'' (''Train''), and ''Utrennee shosse'' (''Morning highway'') are assertively realistic description of the life in 1960s, 70s, and 80s Russia. His first novel, ''The Grandmaster's Mark'', was published in 1965 by ''
Yunost
''Yunost'' (russian: Ю́ность, ''Youth'') is a Russian language literary magazine created in 1955 in Moscow (initially as a USSR Union of Writers' organ) by Valentin Kataev, its first editor-in-chief, who was fired in 1961 for publishing Va ...
'' and brought immediate recognition to its author. Shtemler was an active campaigner for the protection of Russian historical heritage. In 2006, he became vice-president of the
St. Petersburg division of the
PEN club
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.
Death
Shtemler died from
COVID-19 in
Saint Petersburg on 3 December 2022, at the age of 89.
References
External links
Ilya Shtemler@ ozon.ru
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1933 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Russian male writers
Russian male novelists
Soviet writers
Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Writers from Baku
Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University alumni
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
Jewish Russian writers