Category:Vasily Azhayev

**Vasily Azhayev**
	Soviet writer
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Date of birth	30 January 1915 (in Julian calendar); Moscow Governorate
Date of death	27 April 1968; Moscow (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union)
Place of burial	Novodevichy Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	Soviet Union;
Educated at	Maxim Gorky Literature Institute;
Occupation	writer;
Member of	USSR Union of Writers;
Award received	Stalin Prize; Order of the Red Banner of Labour;
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Vasily Nikolayevich Azhayev (Russian: Васи́лий Никола́евич Ажа́ев; born February 12 [O.S. January 30] 1915- April 27, 1968) was a Russian writer, best known as the author of the novel Daleko ot Moskvy ("Далеко от Москвы"; Far from Moscow) (1948)