Dmitry Prokopyevich Devyatov ( 1919 - 1968 ) - Russian Soviet playwright.
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| Date of Birth | September 23, 1919 |
| Place of Birth | Dvoinovka Kirsanovsky district , Tambov province , RSFSR |
| Date of death | July 19, 1968 (aged 48) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Occupation | playwright |
| Direction | socialist realism |
| Genre | play |
| Language of Works | Russian |
| Debut | play "Blue Heights" |
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Biography
Born September 23, 1919 in the village of Dvoinovka (now Kirsanovsky district , Tambov region ) in a peasant family. He studied at the Kirsanov Railway High School, after which he worked as a literary worker in the Kirsanovskaya Kommuna newspaper. He later graduated from the Institute of Journalism in Moscow.
In 1941, he volunteered to go to the front, where he went from an ordinary to the deputy editor of the division’s newspaper “For the Fatherland”. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943.
Since 1947 he worked in the regional newspaper Tambovskaya Pravda. He began his creative activity during the war years, when he wrote the first play "Blue Heights", which remained unpublished. His next work caused a great resonance - the comedy "In Lebyazhye", which was staged in 1950 in the Tambov OTD named after A. V. Lunacharsky ( Stalin Prize of the third degree), and then staged by many theaters in the country. He is the author of ostro-journalistic plays dedicated to the life of the Soviet village: “Spring in the Steppe”, “Treason”, “Be Healthy”, “The Price of Bread” and others. The playwright was closely connected with the life of the people, traveled extensively throughout the country, and appeared in essays and stories in the central press.
In the last year of his life, he worked on two plays, “The Fortuneteller” (“Songs on the Moscow River”) and “I Give My Head for Clipping,” which was not completed.
He died on July 19, 1968 in Moscow. He was buried in the old city cemetery of Kirsanov , according to the will.
Awards and Prizes
- Order of the Red Star (09.21.1944)
- Medal of Honor"