Kassil Lev Abramovich

(1905 - 1970)

Born on June 27 (July 10, NS) in the settlement of Protection (r. Engels on the Volga) in the family physician. He studied at the school, after the revolution transformed into a unified labor school. Collaborated with Pokrovskaya children's library reading room, in which organized for the children of workers of various circles, including published and manuscript magazine editor and artist who was Kassil. After leaving school for an active community Kassil received direction in college. In 1923 he entered the Mathematics Department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University, specializing in aerodynamic cycle. By the third course began to think seriously about the literary work. A year later, wrote his first story, which was published in 1925 in the newspaper "News Radio". All gave their free time reading Russian classics.

In 1927 he met Vladimir Mayakovsky, thunder long admired the talent that is beginning to cooperate in the journal Mayakovsky "New Lef. There were printed excerpts from the first book "Conduit". Received the invitation to cooperate in the "Pioneer", which at that time worked Prishvin, A. Gaidar and others. He met with S. Marshak, a meeting which identified Kassil career as a children's writer. Journalism would not go away: more than nine years he worked in the newspaper Izvestia, he traveled around the country and abroad, meeting with interesting people, publishing material in newspapers for adults and children. Second major book Shvambraniya "was published in 1933;

. Subjects novels, . written later Kassil, . varied: "Goalkeeper of the Republic" (1937); "Cheremysh - brother of the hero" (1938), "Mayakovsky - himself" (1940), "My dear boy" (1944), "Progress in White Queen" (1956); "Street Jr. son "(with M. Polyansky, . 1949); Bowl Gladiator "(1961) and other,
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For many years he taught at the Literary Institute. Gorky. L. Kassil died in Moscow in 1970.