Left: Soviet writer Viktor Astafyev on vacation with his countryman in his native village of Ovsyanka on the banks of the Yenisei.01.09.1988#8363964
The outskirts of Ovsyanka village near Divnogorsk on the bank of the Yenisei River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Soviet writer Viktor Astafyev, recipient of the USSR State prize, spent his childhood years here. Local residents mostly fell trees and deliver log rafts to clients.07.07.1988#8364007
The outskirts of Ovsyanka village near Divnogorsk on the bank of the Yenisei River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Soviet writer Viktor Astafyev, recipient of the USSR State prize, spent his childhood years here.07.07.1988#8363988
Writer Viktor Astafyev in his home village of Ovsyanka in the Krqasnoyarsk Territory. Stock photo.07.07.1988#6592256
Soviet writer Ivan Vasilyev in his home village Borki of the Velikoluksky district, the Pskov Region.23.06.1988#5477993
Soviet writer Ivan Vasilyev reads morning newspapers in his home village Borki of Velikoluksky district, the Pskov region.23.06.1988#5477984
The Irkutsk Region. Soviet writers, left to right, Chairman of the environmental section of the Moscow Department of the Union of Soviet Writers Vladimir Krupin, Valentin Rasputin and Vasily Belov on Lake Baikal.01.06.1987#3012156
Right: Alexander (Ales) Adamovich, Belarusian Soviet writer, screenwriter and literary scholar, critic, Doctor of Philology, professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, during a visit to the Khatyn Memorial Complex in the Belarusian SSR.23.03.1984#8760540
Fazu Aliyeva, Soviet and Avar poet, editor-in-chief of the Woman of Dagestan magazine, and Deputy Chairperson of Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the Dagestan ASSR, at a flower farm in the village of Genichutl.01.06.1982#6626954
Left: Fazu Aliyeva, Soviet and Avar poet, editor-in-chief of the Woman of Dagestan magazine, and Deputy Chairperson of Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the Dagestan ASSR, at home with her family.01.06.1982#6626952
Member of the Central Board of the Soviet-Hungarian friendship, writer Valentin Rasputin.15.09.1977#1066099
The Daghestan ASSR. Photo: Soviet Daghestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, center, performs at a festival of popular folk singers and storytellers in the high-altitude Gali village.01.07.1972#5765205
The Daghestan ASSR. Photo: Soviet Daghestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, center, and composer Yan Frenkel, left, attend a festival of popular folk singers and storytellers in the high-altitude Gali village.01.07.1972#5765204
The Daghestan ASSR. Photo: Soviet Daghestani poet Rasul Gamzatov with a resident of the high-altitude Gali village.01.07.1972#5765202
The Daghestan ASSR. Photo: Soviet Daghestani poet Rasul Gamzatov talks to old-timers in the high-altitude Gali village. .01.07.1972#5765195
The Daghestan ASSR. Photo: Residents of the high-altitude Gali village welcome Poet Rasul Gamzatov who has arrived in his home village.01.07.1972#5765194
The Daghestan ASSR. Photo: Soviet poet Rasul Gamzatov was born in Tsada high-altitude village in the Khunzakh District.01.07.1972#5765191
