Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Petrovich Golikov (, in Russian) (January 22 (January 9 (O.S.)) 1904 — October 26 1941), better known as Arkady Gaidar (), was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children.

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He was born in Lgov town, Imperial Russia (now in Kursk Oblast, Russia), to a family of a teacher. His childhood Gaidar spent in Arzamas. In 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army. During the Russian Civil War, he was made a commander of a regiment at the age of 16. Gaidar was wounded in combat on several occasions. He retired from the army in 1924 due to a contusion. A year later, Gaidar began publishing his literary works. His story "RVS" (1926) defined his further life in many respects: Gaidar found his vocation in children's literature by telling stories of front-line comradery and romanticism of revolutionary struggle. A story "Timur and his squad" (1940) made Gaidar famous. The character Timur was named after and partially based on Gaidar's son. A captivating account of an altruistic pioneer enterprise gave birth to a mass Timur movement among Young Pioneers and other children all over the Soviet Union.

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In the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Gaidar was sent to the front as a special correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda. In the fall of 1941, Gaidar and other soldiers were surrounded by the Nazi troops. He joined the partisans and became a machine gunner. On October 26, Gaidar died in combat.

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He was buried in a town of Kanev, where a monument to him was built in 1953. Gaidar was awarded two orders and several medals.

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Three biographical movies about Arkady Gaidar were released in the USSR:Serebryanye truby (1970), Konets imperatora taygi (1978) and Ostayus s vami (Leaving with you in English, 1981, it's about Arkady Gaidar's last days). And also a number of films was made based on his stories. Gaidar?s books are translated into many languages.

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Russian economist Yegor Gaidar is Arkady Gaidar's grandson (well, not quite so, since Yegor Gaidar's father, Timur Gaidar, was actually a stepson of Arkady Gaidar).

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