We remember him like this ...I never knew what to expect from him. From the first meeting. It was December 2012. The New Year's issue of Novaya Gazeta was being typed up. Editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, two days before the release of the issue, assigned me a “non-trivial interview” with Daniil Granin, knowing that a million had already been published with the 93-year-old classic of conversations! I read “Half a Million” for sure – I was so prepared, so afraid.

For about six years, garbage cans stood in the Shalovo-Perechitsky nature reserve, which were installed independently by the residents of Luga. But when people turned to officials asking for help with garbage removal, they said that the bins had been placed illegally.

In Pushkin, hearings were held on the draft planning of the territory of the first piece of the satellite city of Yuzhny in the village of Lesnoye. About a hundred people came. Residents of the Pushkinsky district and representatives of organizations spoke, but not one said a word in favor of the project.

It was proposed to emulate the museum, cared for by Archpriest Alexander Pelin. A new center of culture is flaring up in St. Petersburg. Orthodox activist Grigory Gershkovich transformed his business center into a spiritual center - with a house church, a chapel and the St. Petersburg Art Museum.

In memory of a great man Without knowing it, Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin played a largely decisive role in my life. To begin with, my parents named me after him - and not only under the influence of the novel “I'm Walking into a Storm,” which came out and thundered not long before. Granin was a symbol of the City for them. This is how Daniil Granin became for me. It was he who seemed to me a person who personified the entire St.