Aleksandr Shcherbakov

Aleksandr Shcherbakov was a founding member of the Soviet Writers' Union, along with Maksim Gor'kij. Following the latter's death in 1936, Shcherbakov was transferred from his role as First Secretary to the lower role of Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee where he reported to Andrei Zhdanov. He was also a notable critic of Ivan Gronsky

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Soviet Writers' Union - Maksim Gor'kij - 1936 - Andrei Zhdanov - Ivan Gronsky

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Shcherbakov died of heart failure in 1945, and the following year the town of Rybinsk was renamed Shcherbakov in his honour (and reverted in 1957).

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Heart failure - 1945 - Rybinsk

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