Nikita Vasilyevich Sakharov (russian: Ники́та Васи́льевич Са́харов; 1915 in

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, Transbaikal Oblast – 1945) was a

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Evenk poet and prose writer.

Biography

Nikita Sakharov was born in

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...

in 1915. He began his education at a rural Siberian school, moved to the city of Chita to continue his studies, and came to

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in the early 1930s to attend the

Institute of the Peoples of the North The Institute of the Peoples of the North (russian: Институт Народов Севера) is a research and later educationary institute based in Saint Petersburg. Its objective is to examine topics related to the northern minorities in th ...

. He began writing as a student. His best-known work, the 1938 novel ''Red Suglan'', described the initiation of

collective farming Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member- ...

in the rural north. Nikita Sakharov volunteered for the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

after the

German invasion of the Soviet Union Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named afte ...

in 1941. A decorated serviceman, he died fighting in Germany in April 1945. Sakharov's literary works were republished or published in Russian-language translation for the first time after the war, and much of his reputation as a writer is based on the literary research carried out in the post-war period. The Soviet Evenk historian Vasily Uchanov described ''Red Suglan'' as "the most conspicuous Evenk literary work of the 1930s." A

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recording of his voice is preserved by the Phonogram Archives of the Institute of Russian Literature.Endangered Archives in St. Petersburg.
Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning. Retrieved 15 January 2012.

Honours and awards

Order of the Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisa ...

, 1st class * Order of the Red Star

References

External links

Nikita Vasilyevich Sakharov
in the Electronic Memory of the Arctic project {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakharov, Nikita 1915 births 1945 deaths People from Zabaykalsky Krai People from Transbaikal Oblast Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Soviet poets Male poets Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Evenks