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Georgi Nikolayevich Vladimov (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Влади́мов; real family name Volosevich, Russian: Волосевич; 19 February 1931, Kharkiv – 19 October 2003, Frankfurt) was a Russian dissident writer.

Georgi Nikolayevich Vladimov
Native name	Георгий Николаевич Владимов
Born	Georgi Nikolayevich Volosevich (1931-02-19)February 19, 1931 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR
Died	October 19, 2003(2003-10-19) (aged 72) Frankfurt, Germany
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Notable works	Faithful Ruslan
Notable awards	Russian Booker Prize, Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage

Biography

In 1977 he became the leader of the Moscow section of Amnesty International, forbidden in the USSR. In 1983, he emigrated to West Germany.[1]

Vladimov's most famous novel is Faithful Ruslan, the tale of a guard dog in a Soviet Gulag, told from the dog's perspective. It circulated in the Soviet Union as a samizdat publication, before being published in West Germany in 1975.

His novel The General and His Army, on General Chibisov (Kobrissov) and General Vlasov, was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1995 and the Sakharov Prize in 2000.

Works

• The Great Ore (Большая руда, 1961)
• Three Minutes of Silence (Три минуты молчания, 1969)
• Faithful Ruslan (Верный Руслан, 1975)
• The Sixth Soldier, 1981
• Pay No Attention, Maestro (Не обращайте внимания, маэстро, 1983)
• The General and His Army (Генерал и его армия, 1994)

References

External links

• Encyclopædia Britannica article
• Georgi Vladimov at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Владимов, Георгий Николаевич

Гео́ргий Никола́евич Влади́мов (настоящая фамилия Волосевич; 19 февраля 1931, Харьков — 19 октября 2003, Франкфурт) — русский писатель, сценарист и литературный критик реалистического направления, диссидент.

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