Background
Lashin, Aleksandr was born on March 27, 1913 in Bludovo near Vologda.
Lashin, Aleksandr was born on March 27, 1913 in Bludovo near Vologda.
Graduated from the Gorkii Literary Institute in Moscow, 1941.
Political officer in the army during World War II. Wrote one of the first true accounts of kolkhoz life, Rychagi, published during the Khrushchev thaw, 1956.