Background
Zalygin, Sergei was born on December 6, 1913 in the village of Durasovka, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Zalygin, Sergei was born on December 6, 1913 in the village of Durasovka, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Bachelor in Agriculture, Agricultural College, Barnaul, Russia, 1932; Master of Arts in Hydrotechnics, Agricultural Ednl. Institute, Omsk, Russia, 1939.
Worked as an engineer, hydro-technologist, and hydrologist in the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy
emy of Sciences. Began writing when he was a student. First work published in 1936.
Editor-in-chief of Novyi Mir, 1987. The first non-party editor-in-chief in state-controlled publishing. Encouraged by Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost, started publishing previously banned literary works.
In October 1988, made an (unsuccessful) attempt to publish Solzhenitsyn.
Main works include: Rasskazy (Stories), 1941. Tropy Altaia (Altay’s Paths), 1962. Na Irtyshe (On the Irtysh), 1964.
Solenaia Pad’ (The Salty Ravine), 2 vol., 1967-1968.
People's deputy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Congress of People's Desputies, Moscow, 1989-1991. Member Russian Academy Sciences (academician), New York Academy Sciences.
Married Lyubov Bashkirova, April 30, 1939. 1 child, Galina.