Sotnikov. To Live Until Dawn

Vasily Vladimirovich Bykov 1924 – 2003 – Soviet Belarusian writer and public figure, participant in the Great Patriotic War. He participated in battles for the liberation of Ukraine and Moldova; marched with the active army through Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria. Most of Bykov's works are novellas about the Great Patriotic War, in which the moral choice of a person is shown in the most dramatic moments of life. The collection includes the novellas by V. Bykov, Sotnikov 1969 and To Live Until Dawn 1972. In 1974, for the novellas Obelisk and To Live Until Dawn, Bykov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.