Viktor Muravin (born 1929) is an author, best known for his novel ''
Aurora Borealis'', also published under the title ''
The Diary of Vikenty Angarov''. Born in
Vladivostok, in his youth he joined the
Pioneers and the
Komsomol
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...
. He worked as a
horse-wrangler and agricultural worker,
and by 1978 he lived in
New York City.
His novel, partly based on a friend's experiences
describes the survival of former sea-captain Angarov in the labor camps of Siberia.
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1929 births
Living people
Writers from Vladivostok
Russian anti-communists
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Russian male novelists
American writers of Russian descent
Soviet dissidents
Soviet expellees
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