Daniil Granin died

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Writer Daniil Granin died in St. Petersburg at the age of 98. Interfax reports this with reference to a source in the city’s medical circles.

The agency’s interlocutor said that Granin had been in the intensive care unit of a city hospital for the last few days. Shortly before his death, the writer was connected to a ventilator.

Daniil Granin (real name German) was born in 1919. In 1941, he went to the front as part of a people’s militia division and fought at the Luga line and at the Pulkovo Heights. Then Granin was sent to the Ulyanovsk Tank School, after which he fought in the tank forces.

Granin was first published in 1949. His most famous novels are “The Searchers,” “After the Wedding,” and “I’m Going into the Storm.” In 1979, his “Siege Book” was published, co-authored with Ales Adamovich, in which the writers describe the life of Leningraders during the siege. In 2012, Granin received the Big Book Award for his novel My Lieutenant.

UPD: Granin will be buried on July 8 at the Komarovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg at 15:00. A civil funeral service will take place at the Tauride Palace at noon.