Nikolai Ostrovsky
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Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky (29 September 1904–22 December 1936) was a Russian socialist realist writer, who published most of his works during the Stalin era.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1935. His novel, How the Steel Was Tempered, became renowned and influential in the Communist world. For years Ostrovsky suffered from illness, paralysis and blindness. His illness would lead to his death and not allowing him to complete his second novel on the Ukrainian civil war, Born of the Storm.
