Grigory Baklanov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grigory Baklanov

Russian novelist and short story writer

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Voronezh, Azov Governorate, Russia

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2009

Profession: screenwriter, writer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (Russian: ?????´??? ?´???????? ?????´???) (September 11, 1923 – December 23, 2009) was a Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the literary magazine Znamya.
Becoming the editor in 1986, during Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, Baklanov published the works that were previously banned by Soviet censors; his drive for glasnost boosted the magazine's circulation to 1 million copies.