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Nikolai Ostrovsky

Died in 1936

Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936) was born on 29 September 1904 in Viliia, in Volhynia. He worked from childhood, notably as a boiler stoker and an apprentice electrician, then joined the Komsomol and enlisted in Kotovsky's cavalry brigade. Gravely wounded in 1920, then struck by typhus and declared an invalid at eighteen, he remained bedridden and lost his sight. He received the Order of Lenin and died in Moscow on 22 December 1936.

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