Vladimir Stepanovich Gubarev (Russian: Владимир Степанович Гу́барев; 26 August 1938 – 25 January 2022) was a Belarusian writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist.
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Born in Mogilev, Gubarev started his career as a Pravda journalist, where he specialized in science-related themes, and particularly space flights.[1][2] He adapted several of his reports into plays and screenplays.[3] In 1978 he was awarded the USSR State Prize.[1] He got international prominence thanks to his drama play Sarcophagus, based on some Pravda articles he wrote about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.[3][4] The drama was nominated at 1987 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play.[5][6] Gubarev died in Moscow on 25 January 2022, at the age of 83.[1]
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