What is Valentin Rasputin?
{{Infobox writer | image = Валентин Распутин.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = | birth_date = 15 March 1937 | birth_place = [[Ust-Udinsky District|Atalanka]], [[Irkutsk Oblast]], [[Russian SFSR]] | death_date = {{dda|df=y|2015|3|14|1937|3|15}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] | genre = Fiction | notableworks = ''Farewell to Matyora'' |alma_mater = [[Irkutsk State University]] }} '''Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin''' ({{lang-ru|Валентин Григорьевич Распутин}}; 15 March 1937{{spaced ndash}}14 March 2015) was a [[Russians|Russian]] [[writer]]. He was born and lived much of his life in the [[Irkutsk Oblast]] in Eastern [[Siberia]]. Rasputin's works show rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin's work are about the hard questions of ethics and spiritual revival. Rasputin died a day short of his 78th birthday on 14 March 2015 in [[Moscow]].<ref name=died>{{cite news|title=Умер писатель Валентин Распутин|url=http://lenta.ru/news/2015/03/15/rasputin/|agency=[[Lenta]]|date=15 March 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rasputin, Valentin}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Russian novelists]] [[Category:Soviet writers]] [[Category:People from Irkutsk Oblast]] {{bio-stub}}