As the Steel Was Tempered. Ostrovsky N.A.

Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky (1904–1936) - Soviet writer, participant in the Civil War. At the age of fifteen, Ostrovsky enters the Komsomol and immediately goes to the front as a volunteer. “It was so that together with the Komsomol ticket we received a gun and two hundred rounds.” A young fighter with boiling energy, he quickly becomes the organizer of the Komsomol in parts of the Red Army. After a severe wound in the back, Nikolai Ostrovsky returns to a full life. He enters the Kiev Electrotechnical School, then to the technical school, works as an assistant to an electrician. The young Ostrovsky always sought to be where the homeland needed the most. At the Komsomol construction site of the railway line in Kyiv, Nikolai was very cold and fell ill with typhoid.

at the age of eighteen, Ostrovsky was recognized as disabled, but continued to work hard. Ostrovsky wrote his novel “How Steel” (1934), being chained to bed. He became an autobiography of the writer. Ostrovsky’s serious condition did not prevent him from creating the most famous and readable work of Soviet literature. The events of the novel unfold against the background of the Civil War (1917–1922); It shows the formation of socialism in the country, the restoration of the national economy. The main character - Pavel Korchagin became an example of the courage and strength of the human spirit for many generations.

for senior school age.