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Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin (Russian: Дании́л Алекса́ндрович Гра́нин; 1 January 1919 – 4 July 2017), original family name German (Russian: Ге́рман), was a Soviet and Russian author.
Jul 4, 2017 · Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (born Daniil Alexandrovich German) was an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute.
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- January 1, 1919
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- 'Leningrad Under Siege: First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal' World War II is perhaps the most tragic chapter of the 20th century. Written by Daniil Granin together with Belarusian author Ales Adamovich, Leningrad Under Siege(known in Russia as The Blockade Book) offers vivid and detailed accounts of the 900 terrible days of the blockade.
- 'Those Who Seek' Those Who Seek is the first novel by Granin and his most famous work. This Thaw-era novel tells of the personal and professional trials and tribulations of an electrical engineer who shocks his academic colleagues by accepting a pay cut to take charge of a practical laboratory so that he can fulfill his dream of developing a leak-locator (a device for locating breaks in electric power cables).
- 'The Bison: A Novel About the Scientist Who Defied Stalin' The documentary novel The Bison is based on the true story of Soviet geneticist Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky who worked in Germany for 20 years during the Stalin era and faced consequences upon returning home.
- 'Into the Storm' The novel is about young physics who dream of controlling thunderstorms. The book shows an insight into the turbulent lives of Soviet scientists themselves, their motivation, their rivalries, their loves - and hates.
Jul 5, 2017 · Daniil Granin, a Russian author who wrote a chronicle of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and several widely popular novels, has died. He was 98.
Fearsome time. The young man was eager to get to the frontline and managed to lift his exemption from active duty and volunteered to join the people’s militia. He was engaged in combat actions in the Leningrad front, then the Baltic front — as an infantry man and as a tank crewman.
Daniil Granin. Born: 1919. Died: 2017. Quick Study: Daniil Granin is a prose writer known for realistic, often documentary, fiction that draws on scientific and ethical issues in industry during the 1940s and 1950s, as well as experiences during World War 2.
Jul 13, 2017 · Daniil Granin, who has died aged 98, was a Soviet veteran of the Second World War who survived the siege of Leningrad and later published, together with Ales Adamovich, A Book of the Blockade, a...
