Background
Valentin Astrov was born on July 20, 1898, in the village of Golovinskaya Varezhka, Novo-Lomovsky district of the Penza province. From the family of the priest.
Valentin Astrov was born on July 20, 1898, in the village of Golovinskaya Varezhka, Novo-Lomovsky district of the Penza province. From the family of the priest.
Valentin graduated from the Institute of Red Professorship, in 1926.
Valentin worked as a senior research fellow of the Voronezh Regional Museum of Local History, participated in amateur performances (sang and soloed in the choir of the local department of the Union of Atheists). Until December 1934, headed the Department of History of the USSR in the regional Communist University, lectured at the retraining courses for teachers. Astrov worked in Voronezh on the novel "Fires ahead".