Grigoriy Andreevich Karev

Background

Grigoriy Andreevich Karev was born on February 1, 1914 in Bezhbayraki, Ukraine (now Kropivnitskoye, Novoukrainsky district, Kirovograd region, Ukraine).

Education

In 1954 Grigoriy Andreevich graduated from the Moscow Military-Political Academy named after V.I. Lenin.

Career

After graduation Grigoriy Karev for many years was a military journalist in the North, the Far East, in Moscow. He served in the Political Administration of the Baltic Military District.

Author of many books (since 1945) of poems, novels, short stories, mainly about the exploits of sailors during the Great Patriotic War. The novel "Burning Beach" was published in Odessa (1966, 1970, 1983) and Kiev (1974).

In the early 1930s, Karev worked on the construction of the Voronezh plant of the North Caucasus as an worker and secretary of the Komsomol organization. Employee of the executive committee of the Central Black Earth region, correspondent (since 1932) of the regional Ukrainian newspaper "Leninsky Shlyakh".

Membership

• USSR Writers Union

  1964