Mikhail Sholokhov
1905 – 1984 · aged 79
Soviet writer (1905-1984)
- Born
- 1905 · Kruzhilin
- Died
- 21 Feb 1984 · Vyoshenskaya
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 1905BornBorn in Kruzhilin
- 1939AwardOrder of Lenin
- 1941 – 1945WarEastern Front
- 1941AwardState Stalin Prize, 1st degree
- 1945AwardOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- 1955AwardOrder of Lenin
- 1960AwardLenin Prize
- 1964AwardGrand Star of People's Friendship
- 1965AwardOrder of Lenin
- 1965AwardNobel Prize in Literature
- 1967Award"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
- 1967AwardHero of Socialist Labour
- 1967AwardOrder of Lenin
- 1971AwardOrder of the October Revolution
- 21 Feb 1984DiedDied in Vyoshenskaya
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1905 – 1984).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов, IPA: [ˈʂoləxəf]; 24 May [O.S. 11 May] 1905 – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.
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