Nikolai Ostrovsky
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Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.
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Ostrovsky on a 1954 postage stamp
Volhynia Governorate
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Volhynia Governorate, also known as Volyn Governorate, was an administrative-territorial unit of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, established in the historical region of Volhynia. It consi
Nikolai Ostrovsky
…Tempered. Ostrovsky was born in the village of Viliya (today a village in Rivne Raion (until 2020 it was situated in Ostroh Raion), Rivne Oblast) in the Volhynian Governorate (Volhynia), then part of the Russian Empire, into a Ukrainian working-class family. He attended a parochial school until he was nine and was an honor…
Imperial census of 1897.