Sergey Zalygin

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Sergey Zalygin
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Born (1913-12-06)December 6, 1913
Durasovka, Russian Empire
Died April 19, 2000(2000-04-19) (aged 86)
Moscow, Russia

Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin (Russian: Сергей Павлович Залыгин; December 6, 1913 in Durasovka, Ufa Gubernia, Russian Empire – April 19, 2000 in Moscow) was a Soviet writer, novelist.

He was the first non-Communist Party editor-in-chief of the monthly literary magazine Novy Mir (1986–1988). Zalygin was also an academician of the Section of Humanities and Social Sciences (since December 7, 1991).

Zalygin was widely known as an environmentalist, and a prominent critic of the Siberian Rivers Rerouting Project.[1]

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Notable works [edit]

  • Na Irtyshe [On the Irtysh] (1964)
  • Solyonaya pad [Salt Valley] (1968)
  • Iuzhno-Amerikansky Variant [South American Variant] (1973)
  • Komissiya [Commission] (1975) – Sequel to Salt Valley
  • Posle buri [After the Storm] (1985)

The English language edition of the novel, "The South American Variant" is listed on abebooks.com.

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Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Gerner, Kristian; Stefan Hedlund (1989). Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model: A Legacy for Gorbachev. Routledge. p. 363. ISBN 0-415-02142-1. 

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