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Soviet writer, screenwriter and journalist
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Male
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2 July 1908(Pervomaisk, Ukraine)
Death:
20 January 1954(Moscow, Russia)
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Stalin PrizeMedal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"Order of the Red StarOrder of the Badge of HonourOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st classMedal "For the Defence of Odessa"Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"Lenin Komsomol PrizeStalin PrizeMedal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
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Biography
Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet Russian novelist. Born in the Donbass region in the Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.
Gorbatov is best known for his novels Donbass and Taras' Family, both of which were translated into English, the latter also into French and German. The latter novel was filmed in 1945 (see The Unvanquished) and was the first film depicting The Holocaust.
He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize.
He was married to the actress Tatiana Okunevskaya and then the actress Nina Arkhipova. He died in 1954 and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.