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Renowned children’s writer, Arkady Petrovich Gaidar, was born in 1904 and acted as a war correspondent for the newspaper of the Communist Union of Youth, Komsomolskaya Pravda, in WWII (or The Great Patriotic War as it is known in the former Soviet bloc). In the autumn of 1941, when cut off by the enemy forces, he joined a group of partisans as a machine gunner, but within weeks soon died in action. He is buried in Kaniv, where the A.P. Gaidar Library-Museum was later built in his name, but has since been renamed The “Literary Kaniv” Museum.

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