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Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)

Also known as: Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski, Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky, Nikolai Ostrowski, Nikolai Ostrowskij, Nikolay Alekseyevich Ostrovsky, Николай Алексеевич Островский

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Known works

Как закалялась сталь (1972)
Born of the storm
How the steel was tempered
Ispat
Khram khimery