Background
Pavel Nilin was born in Irkutsk, in the family of a political exile.
Pavel Nilin was born in Irkutsk, in the family of a political exile.
After the 1917 Revolution he worked as a criminal investigation officer in the town of Tulun, Irkutsk region, then in 1927 embarked upon the career of a journalist, moving from Siberia first to Povolzhje, then Ukraine and finally Moscow. Here in Novy Mir his first short stories were published in 1936. After the war A Great Life, part 2 was shot, only to be instantly shelved.
In a re-worked form it came out only in 1958.
By this time Nilin was an established Soviet author, whose novel, telling the story of the Soviet militia"s fight against criminal gangs in the 1920s, proved to be both popular and critically acclaimed. Another well-received novel, a psychological war drama Across the Graveyard (Cherez kladbische) came out in 1962.
Pavel Nilin died on October 2, 1981 in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery.
Pavel Nilin has married Matilda Yufit (1909—1993).
They had two sons: Alexander Nilin (b 1940) — is a sport writer, Mikhail Nilin (b 1945) is a psychologist and a script-writer
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Since 1971 Pavel Nilin served as a high-ranked officials being a member of the Soviet Union of Writer"s leadership.