About Andrey Aldan-Semenov
Lived 1908 – 1985 (aged 77). Andrey Aldan-Semenov was a Russian writer.
Andrey Ignatyevich Aldan-Semyonov (; 27 October 1908 – 8 December 1985) was a Russian writer, who was imprisoned in the Far Eastern Soviet Gulag camps from 1938 to 1953. Along with Boris Dyakov and Yury Pilyar, he published his memoirs of Gulag life as part of the second wave of Russian literature on the Soviet camp experience, after Georgy Shelest published his Kolyma Notes and Alexander Solzhenitsyn his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
He died in Moscow on December 8, 1985, and was buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery (Plot 10B). His wife, Olga Antonovna Aldan-Semyonova, was later buried beside him.
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Russian writer of Soviet prison camp literature (1908–1985)
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Andrey Aldan-Semenov was born on 27 October 1908 in Urzhumsky Uyezd.
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Andrey Aldan-Semenov died on 8 December 1985 in Moscow.
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