Writer Daniil Granin died in St. Petersburg
The author of the “Blockade book” was 98 years old.
Moscow. July 5. INTERFAX.RU Writer, honorary citizen of St. Petersburg Daniil Granin died at the 99th year of life, reported “Interfax” a source in medical circles of the city. According to the source, Granin last few days were in the intensive care unit of one of the city hospitals. Shortly before his death, he was connected to the ventilator.
“Daniil died in the night of Wednesday,” — said the Agency interlocutor.
The date of farewell and funeral yet.
Granin (real name Herman) was born on 1 January 1919 in the family of Forester of Alexander Hermann and his wife Anna of Bakirovna. In 1940 he graduated from the Electromechanical faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, worked at the Kirov plant. From there he went to the front in the division of the people’s militia, fought on the Luga line, on Pulkovo heights. Then he was sent to the Ulyanovsk tank school, fought in the tank forces, was commander of a company of heavy tanks.
From 1945 to 1950 he worked in “Lenenergo” and the research Institute. Was a member of the editorial Board of the journal “Roman-Gazeta”. Granin became the initiator of creation of the Leningrad society “Mercy”. Granin — President of the society of friends of the Russian national library, Chairman of the Board of the International charitable Fund them. Likhachev, a member of the worldwide club of Petersburgers.
He was first published in 1949. The main theme of Granin’s works is the development of scientific and technical creativity.
Almost all of his works are devoted to the scientific exploration, the search, the struggle between searching, principled scientists and people not gifted, careerists, bureaucrats.
His novels “the Searchers,” “Going to storm”, “bison”, essay “This strange life” and “Fear”, the novel “the Lovely Uta”, “Garden of stones”, “Month upside down”, “Rain in a strange city” — Board book reading of a few generations. Already in the XXI century novel Granin “My Lieutenant” won the national literary prize “Big book” (2012). The theme of the great Patriotic war and the siege holds a special place in the work Granin. Event in the life of the country was the release of the “Blockade book” (1977-1981), written together with Ales Adamovich.
Granin — commander of the order of St. Andrew, Hero of Socialist Labor (1989), Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (2005), laureate of USSR State prize and the State prize of Russia and prize of the President of the Russian Federation in literature and art prize of the St. Petersburg government in literature, art and architecture, Heine award and others.
