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In 1974, the film studio "Soyuzmultfilm" released a 10-minute cartoon "Hare Koska and Spring". According to the plot, the main character, and with him the young viewers, will learn about how the water cycle occurs in nature.
The basis for the script of the cartoon was the story of the same name by Nikolai Gribachev. Many people know this writer and poet as the author of many works for children. However, Gribachev also created a large number of novels, short stories and poems for an adult audience.
Biography of Nikolai Gribachev
The future writer, whose full name is Nikolai Matveevich Gribachev, was born on December 19, 1910 in the village of Lopush, which is currently located in the Bryansk region. It is known that the parents of Nikolai Gribachev were peasants.
After graduating from the 7th grade of school, he entered the hydro-reclamation technical school in the village of Brasovo, where he completed his studies in 1932. After that, until 1941, until the Great Patriotic War began, Nikolai Gribachevworked as a journalist: first in the city of Petrozavodsk (newspaper Krasnaya Karelia), then in Smolensk (Working Way).
In the first years of the war he was the commander of a sapper battalion. In 1943, Gribachev became a war correspondent for the front-line newspapers Combat Comrade and Stalin's Banner.
After the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Gribachev continued to work in various newspapers and magazines. He served as chief editor of the magazine "Soviet Union" - a monthly socio-political publication.
The writer died at the age of 81 on March 10, 1992 and was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Bibliography
The first poems of Nikolai Gribachev were published during his studies at the Irrigation Technical School.
The writer's debut book, called "North-West", was published in 1935, when he served as head of the editorial department of Krasnaya Karelia.
During the life of Gribachev in Smolensk, several poems were published: "Fate", "Stepan Elagin", "Siege". These and some other works were later combined into the collection Poems and Poems, published in 1939.
During the war, Nikolai Gribachev did not stop writing and created a new poem called "Russia". In the post-war period, the works “Kolkhoz Bolshevik” and “Spring in Pobeda” came out from under the pen of the writer.
In addition to literary publications, Gribachev also authored several articles: "Unconquered Korea", "Face to Face with America","Gum-beauty".
At the end of his life, Nikolai Gribachev began to write fairy tales and short stories for children. At the moment, these are the only works that continue to be reprinted after the death of the writer.
Reviews and criticism
The works of Nikolai Gribachev have often been and are still subject to criticism. In particular, a contemporary Ilya Erenburg (Russian writer, poet and journalist) described the poem "Russia" as "excessively pretentious".
However, the leaders liked Gribachev's work: first Stalin, and later Khrushchev, who took his place. The latter even nominated the writer as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
When the "Khrushchev thaw" period ended, Nikolai Gribachev was able to earn the respect of the next leader - Brezhnev, who awarded the poet the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Awards and prizes
Gribachev is the owner of about 15 different awards, prizes and orders. Most of them were awarded to him for military service (the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, the Red Star, etc.).
In 1948, the writer was awarded the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree for the poem “Kolkhoz Bolshevik” published a year earlier. Soon Gribachev received the same award of the 2nd degree for the work "Spring in Pobeda".
In 1960, Nikolai Gribachev was awarded the Lenin Prize for his nonfiction book Face to Face with America, co-authored with Soviet journalist Alexei Adzhubey.
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