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It was nominated for the 2004 Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. [7] On September 8, 2021, the film "The Blockade Diary," based on Granin's "A Book of the Blockade," was presented in Moscow cinemas. [8] One of his most popular books is The Bison (1987), which tells the story of the Soviet geneticist Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky. [5]
The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany 's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied Finnish army invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city.
Mark Abramovich Kirnarsky (June 8, 1893 in Pogar – 1941 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet cover artist of Jewish descent. He belonged to the so-called Petrograd school, distinguished by consistent and scrupulous style. He scored particularly for Akhmatova's From Six Books (Iz shesti knig) and the publishing house Academia.
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (December 31, 1918 – June 3, 2018) was a Russian-American author, actress and a sniper during World War II.A survivor of the siege of Leningrad, she married an American diplomat and came to the United States, becoming the author of 14 books.
The Leningrad School of Painting (Russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was united by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1932–1991).
During the Siege of Leningrad, she served as a nurse at a children's hospital dedicated to Nadezhda Krupskaya. After the war, Marttila graduated from the Tavricheskaya Art School in 1948. She worked as a graphic designer and art teacher until 1978. In 1981, Marttila became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. [2] [5]
Elena Lezik, the director of the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad, describes the work on the project somewhat differently in her article about the monumental complex. She wrote about the very first compositional version: “And in the center of the composition, without a high pedestal and directly on the ground ...
He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies (Seirawan 2003:91). Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad . During the war, many of his notes got destroyed or lost so some of the latest chess problems he composed were never published.