Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first novel of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the USSR.
Many literary critics consider Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to be the two most major literary authors in the USSR since World War II. Pasternak is known for his novel "Doctor Zhivago," while Solzhenitsyn gained international recognition for his works exposing the Soviet labor camp system, such as "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "The Gulag Archipelago."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn didn't accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 when he won it because the Soviet government put pressure on him to decline it, including threatening not to let him back in the country if he went to Stockholm where the prizes are awarded. After being exiled from the USSR in 1974, Solzhenitsyn did accept his prize in the award ceremony of that year.
Alexander Semin was born in Krasnoyarsk, USSR.
Shai Alexander was born on January 17, 1979, in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.
Alexander Minz was born in 1941, in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus].
The title of the anthem of the USSR is "State Anthem of the USSR" in English or "Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR" in Russian. It was written by Sergey Mikhalkov and composed by Alexander Alexandrov.
Alexander Shlemenko was born on May 20, 1984, in Omsk, Omskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR.
Alexander Rodnyansky was born on July 2, 1961, in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
Alexander Artemev was born on August 29, 1985, in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus].
Alexander Formos was born on May 18, 1983, in Kremenchug, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
Alexander Sizonenko was born on July 20, 1959, in Zaporozh'ye, Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhia, Ukraine].
Invasion of the USSR.