Daniil Granin died

In the 99th year of life, a writer, an honorary resident of St. Petersburg Daniil Granin, Interfax reports . The last days he was in the intensive care unit of one of the city’s hospitals.

Daniil Granin (real name German) was born on January 1, 1919 in the village of Volyn Kursk Region in the Forester family. In 1940 he graduated from the Electromechanical Department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, worked at the Kirov Plant. From there he went to the front as part of a division of the people's militia, fought at the Luga line, at Pulkovo heights. Then he was seconded to the Ulyanovsk Tank School, fought in the tank troops, was the commander of a company of heavy tanks.

The first works of Granin were printed in 1949. In 1954, the novel "Seekers" was released, which brought the writer wide fame. Later they were written "Ido for a thunderstorm" (1962), "Choice of the goal" (1975), "Zubble" (1987) and many others. According to Granin’s works, more than 10 feature films were shot in which he was the author or co -author of the script.

In 1979, the Blockade Book was published about the life of Leningraders during the blockade, written in collaboration with Ales Adamovich. In 2014, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky accused Granin in Vranya for the publication of photographs of a confectionery workshop in a blockade Leningrad, which made cakes for the party leadership.

Since the late 1950s, Granin was part of the leadership of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Writers, and in 1967-1971 he headed it. He participated in the persecution of objectionable writers. Granin, however, was the only abstaining in 1969 during the vote with the exception of Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the Writers' Union - however, a few days later, under the pressure of the party leadership, he changed his decision. In the case of Joseph Brodsky in 1964, Granin first took an evasive position, then defended the poet accused of parasitism.

From 1989 to 1991, Granin was the People’s Deputy of the USSR. The writer was the initiator of the creation of the Leningrad Society "Mercy". Granin is the President of the Society of Friends of the Russian National Library, Chairman of the Board of the International Charitable Fund named after Likhacheva, member of the World Club of Petersburgers.

In February 2005, Granin, among other figures of science and culture, addressed the international human rights community with an appeal to recognize Mikhail Khodorkovsky political prisoners . In 2006, Granin signed a statement under the statement in defense of the Georgian people and against the destruction of traditional Russian-Georgian ties.

Granin is the cavalier of the Order of St. Andrew the First -Called, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg, Laureate of numerous prizes in the field of literature and art.