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Arkady Gaidar
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Soviet children's writer (1904–1941)
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Arkady Gaidar, born Arkady Petrovich Golikov on 9 January 1904 in Lgov, was a Russian writer, children's writer, science fiction writer and screenwriter who also used the pseudonym Аркадий Гайдар. He held citizenship of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and Russia, wrote in Russian, and worked in children's literature, popular science literature, science fiction literature and journalism. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He took part in World War II and was killed in action, dying on 26 October 1941 in Lipliave. He received the Order of the Badge of Honour and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class. His notable works include Timur and His Squad and Chuk and Gek. His child was Timur Gaidar, and his relative was Egor Gajdar.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Timur and his Gang
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arkady
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Lgov
- Place of death
- Lipliave
- Child
- Timur Gaidar
- Occupation
- war correspondent
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Notable work
- Chuk and Gek
- Field of work
- war journalism
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Гайдар, Аркадий Петрович 001.png
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- Commons category
- Arkady Gaidar
- date of birth
- 1904-01-22
- date of death
- 1941-10-26
- place of burial
- Kaniv
- military casualty classification
- killed in action
- writing language
- Russian
- name in native language
- Аркадий Петрович Голиков
- pseudonym
- Аркадий Гайдар
- relative
- Egor Gajdar
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Encyclopedic overview
Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (Russian: Арка́дий Петро́вич Гайда́р, born Golikov, Russian: Го́ликов; 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1904 – 26 October 1941) was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.
Biography
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