Nikolai Nikolayevich Shpanov ( 1896 - 1961 ) - Soviet writer, author of political and adventure novels , a textbook for flight schools, a monograph on aircraft engines, screenwriter .
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| Date of Birth | June 10 (22), 1896 | ||
| Place of Birth | Nikolsk-Ussuriysky , Primorsky region , Russian empire | ||
| Date of death | October 2, 1961 (65 years old) | ||
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR | ||
| Occupation | prose writer , screenwriter | ||
| Direction | socialist realism , fiction | ||
| Genre | novel | ||
| Language of Works | Russian | ||
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| Artworks on the site Lib.ru | |||
Shpanov created the first image of a detective in Soviet literature - the through hero of several works - Neil Kruchinin (The Adventures of Neil Kruchinin).
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Biography
Born on June 10 ( June 22 ), 1896 in Nikolsk-Ussuriysk (now Ussuriysk , Primorsky Krai ) in the family of a railway employee. By origin - from hereditary nobles. From childhood, he was interested in aviation.
He graduated from the two courses of the shipbuilding faculty of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, but in connection with the outbreak of the First World War, he transferred to the Military Engineering School.
In 1916 he graduated from the Higher Officer Aeronautical School (Gatchina), after which he took part in the battles on the fields of the First World War as an observer pilot. In 1918, he voluntarily entered the Red Air Fleet, was fired due to illness in 1939. Member of the Civil War. Began to print since 1926. In the interwar years, he actively participated in the promotion of aviation through the Society of Friends of the Air Fleet.
He was head of the TsAGI press department, editor of departmental magazines “ Air Fleet Technique ”, “Airplane”, and others. Member of the USSR SP since 1939. From 1939 to 1945 - war correspondent, political worker. In this capacity, he participated in battles at Khalkhin-Gol and in World War II.
Nikolai Shpanov is the author of more than thirty books, the most famous of which are “The First Blow”, “Arsonists”, and “The Invisible War”. In the early works one feels “the romance of polar flights, travels, brave conquerors of deserted spaces”, later novels are rated as “ xenophobic , gustops-isolationist” ( D. L. Bykov ) [1] :
He is also known as the author of popular science books on the history of technology , artistic biographies of James Watt , Denis Papin , Etienne Lenoir, and others. In Soviet times, the epigram was popular [2] :
Writer Nikolai Shpanov
Trophy adored pants
And thick wrote novels
To replenish your pockets!
Creativity
- Our flight into the forest wilds (1926)
- In the ice behind "Italy" (1929)
- By automotive Trans-Eurasia. By car on the Ussuri impassability (1930)
- Feat in the Ice (1930)
- Ice and tailcoats (1932)
- The story of one great loser (1936)
- James Watt (1936)
- First strike (1939, ISBN 5-9533-1531-7 )
- Tales and Stories (1939)
- The Secret of Professor Burago (War of the Invisible; 1943-1944)
- Arsonists (1949)
- For a life! (1950)
- The Conspirators (1951)
- House by the Strait - Old Notebook
- Seekers of Truth (both - 1955)
- The Adventures of Neil Kruchinin (1956)
- Sorcerer's Apprentice (1956, ISBN 978-5-9533-1992-8 )
- Red Stone (1957)
- The Tales of the Successes of the Great Losers (1959)
- Hurricane (1961)
- Note to Anke: The Story
First Strike
The novel “ The First Blow. A Tale of a Future War ”, published in 1939 by the Military Publishing House of the NPO of the USSR in the training series“ Commander's Library ”. The heroes of the book “clearly fought with the Nazis, with the Germans, but the final quarrel with them did not happen” [1] . After the signing of the Soviet-German pact, the book "First Impact" was withdrawn from sale [3] . In the post-Soviet era, the novel was reprinted several times.
Arsonists
The novel - dilogy depicts events from 1932 to March 1939, conceptualizes the preparation of the Second World War from the position of the USSR from the Stalin era, shows the activities of German, French and English intelligence, backstage negotiations between American and German major financiers and industrialists, and for the first time in Soviet literature along with traditionally positive image Dimitrova , Thalmann and other foreign communists, represented by the top leaders of the Third Reich - Hitler , Goering , Goebbels , Hess , Rohm and senior generals Verma HTA Gauss (a fictional character) and the background Shverer. The image of Roosevelt at the beginning of Volume II is positively given. In the novel, events are reflected from the standpoint of the Soviet ideology of the Stalin era and criticism of Trotskyism , sustained in the Soviet official tone.
Movie Scenarios
- 1937 - Deep Raid (with P.P. Malakhov )
- 1941 - Sea hawk (with co-authors)
- 1963 - General and Daisies (together with M. E. Chiaureli , A. A. Filimonov )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Freshness - Russian life
- ↑ I. L. Prut. Unresponsive: about many others and something about yourself. Vagrius, 2000. Page 138.
- ↑ Tokarev V.A. Soviet military utopia on the eve of World War II. // Europe. 2006. No. 1. S. 97-161.
Links
- Shpanov, Nikolay Nikolaevich (English) on the Internet Movie Database
- Shpanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich - a detailed biography of Shpanov
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Shpanov. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- D.D. Nikolaev. First strike: the science fiction writer was blamed for the defeats of the summer of 1941 // Top Secret. 2015.
- Shpanov, Nikolay Nikolaevich on the site " Science Fiction Laboratory "