Aleksandr Chakovsky

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Name Aleksandr Chakovsky		Role Editor

Died February 17, 1994, Moscow, Russia

Aleksandr Borisovich Chakovsky (Russian: Александр Борисович Чаковский; August 26, 1913 in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) – February 17, 1994) was a Soviet/Russian editor and novelist; editor-in-chief of "Literaturnaya Gazeta" from 1962-1988. A hard-line Communist, he served as an unofficial cultural arbiter through his position in the powerful Writers' Union.

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Honours and awards

Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1950) - for the novel "We already Morning" (1949)

Lenin Prize (1978) - for the novel "The Siege"

USSR State Prize (1983) - for the novel "Victory"

Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1980) - a script for the film "Siege" (1973, 1977)

Four Orders of Lenin

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Red Star

Hero of Socialist Labour

References

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