Boris Vasiliev died

The writer Boris Vasiliev suddenly died on Monday at the age of 88, Interfax reports with reference to the Union of Writers of Moscow. "He was a wise adviser and a kind person. The Moscow Union of Writers is mourned about an irreplaceable loss. The bright memory of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev will remain in our hearts," the union said in a message.

Boris Vasiliev was born on May 21, 1924 in Smolensk. He went to the front as a volunteer, fell surrounded three times and left him. In 1943, Vasiliev was shell -shocked.

In the same year, Vasiliev entered the Military Academy of Armored and Mechanized Troops named after Stalin, after the war he worked as a tester of wheeled and tracked vehicles in the Urals. In the mid-1950s, Vasiliev decided to engage in literary activity, to literature he showed a tendency in his youth.

Vasiliev gained fame after the release of the story "And the Dawns here are quiet" in 1969. The book was filmed by Stanislav Rostotsky, and also staged several times in the theater. The authorship of Vasiliev owns more than 30 stories and novels, among which "the lists was not listed", "there was a war tomorrow", "do not shoot the white swans", "Ivanov Kater". According to his works, 15 films were shot.

Vasiliev was the laureate of the USSR State Prize, the Prize of the President of Russia, an independent Academician Sakharov Academician “April”, as well as the winner of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts “for honor and dignity”. In addition, Vasiliev was a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Vasiliev was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree.