Dmitry Furmanov
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Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov (Russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Фу́рманов; 7 November 1891 [O.S. 26 October] – March 15, 1926) was a Russian writer. During the Russian Civil War he joined the Red Army and served as a Bolshevik commissar. He is well-known for his novel Chapayev about Vasily Chapayev, a Red Army officer and a hero of the Civil War. The novel is available in English translation.
In 1941, the town of Sereda, where he was born, was renamed Furmanov after him. A street in Almaty is named after him.
Commissar Furmanov died of meningitis on March 15, 1926.
Furmanov is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
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- The Chapayev book
- "Dmitry Furmanov". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8986131. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
