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Natan RubakUkrainian Soviet writer
Date of Birth: 03.01.1913
Country:  Ukraine |
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Natan Rybak Biography
Natan Samoilovich Rybak, a well-known Ukrainian writer, was born on December 21, 1912 (January 3, 1913) in the village of Ivanovka (now in the Novoarkhangelsky district of the Kirovograd region of Ukraine), in a Jewish family. After completing his primary education, he studied at a factory-technical school and later at the Kyiv Chemical-Technological Institute. In 1931, he dedicated himself to literary activities and collaborated extensively with newspapers such as "Komsomolets Ukraine," "Komsomolskaya Pravda," and the magazine "Molodoi Bolshevik," where his stories and essays were published. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1940.
During the Great Patriotic War, Rybak served as a front-line correspondent for the newspaper VVS "Stalinskiy Sokol." Tragically, on September 11, 1978, N. S. Rybak died in a car accident. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.
Works
Rybak's first collection of stories, "Along the Paths of Competitions," which portrayed the lives and work of sugar factory workers, was published in 1931. In the years leading up to the Great Patriotic War, he released several collections of stories, including "The Master's Secret," "The Angle of Descent," "Courage," "The Story of a Machine Gun," "The Last Marshal," "A Story About Mikhail Frunze," "At Dawn," as well as novels such as "Artillery with Gun Barrels to the East," "Kyiv," "Dnipro," and "Error of Honoré de Balzac."
In 1943, Rybak published the novel "Weapons with Us." In 1948, the first part of his historical epic "Pereslavska Rada," dedicated to the liberation war of the Ukrainian people under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, was released. The series concluded with the reunion of Ukraine and Russia. The second volume of the novel was published in 1953.
Other notable works by Natan Rybak include "A Time of Hopes and Achievements," "Soldiers Without Uniforms" (1967), and "The Long Road in a Short Day" (1971).
Awards
Natan Rybak was awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1950 for the first book of his epic "Pereslavska Rada." He also received the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Patriotic War I and II class, the Order of the Red Star, and several other orders and medals.
