Nikolai Rakitny (real name is Nikolai Isakovich (Isaakovich) Novikov ) ( Belorussian Mikola Rakitny ; April 15, 1920 , village Petritskoye (now the Bragin district of the Gomel region of Belarus ) - 2000 ) - Belarusian and Soviet writer.
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| Belor. Mykola Rakitny | |
| Birth name | Nikolay Isaakovich Novikov |
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| Place of Birth | village Petritskoe (now the Bragin district of the Gomel region of Belarus ) |
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| Language of Works | Belorussian |
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Biography
Born into a peasant family. In 1936-1939 he studied at the Vitebsk Art College.
In 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army. During the Great Patriotic War he participated in battles on the Central and South-Western fronts .
After demobilization in 1946 he worked as an artist and literary employee of the newspaper Zvezda. From 1949 - editor of the department of essays, in 1967-1980. - Department of literature and art of the magazine "Belarus".
He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and medals.
Creativity
He published his first stories in 1944 in Russian in the military press, and since 1947 he wrote in Belarusian.
He is the author of the collections of short stories in Early Spring "(" Early Viasnoy ", 1952)," Evening Dawns "(" Vyachernіya Zory ", 1956)," Selkors "(1958), Under One Roof (" The Fall of the Hades of Daham, "stories and essays, 1961 ), “It was spring ...” (“It was clear ...”, 1964), “Among his people” (“Syarod ludzey svayh”, 1967), “Rural short stories” (“Vyaskova’s brought in”, 1969), “Favorites” (“ Vybranaye ”, 1972),“ Smashed Far ”(1979),“ At the Lots of Lush Candles ”(1989). In the Russian translation -“ Native Dali ”(1957),“ Polesye were ”(1966),“ The field is quiet, the field is bright ... "(1975)," One Hundred Village Short Stories "(1984), etc.
In 1980, his “Selected Works” (“Selected Creatures”) was published in 2 volumes.
He wrote mainly about the life of the post-war village, about the strong-willed ordinary Soviet workers. His stories are dynamic and action-packed, distinguished by the harmony of composition.