Vasily Azhayev
Vasily Nikolayevich Azhayev (Russian: Васи́лий Никола́евич Ажа́ев; born February 12 [O.S. January 30] 1915 – April 27, 1968) was a Soviet and Russian writer, best known as the author of the novel Daleko ot Moskvy ("Далеко от Москвы"; Far from Moscow) (1948, Stalin Prize of 1949), which served as the basis for several eponymous film, stage and TV adaptations, and an opera.
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- 1915 births
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- 20th-century Russian male writers
- Stalin Prize winners
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Russian male novelists
- Russian male writers
- Socialist realism writers
- Soviet male writers
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- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
- Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni