What is Yuri Bondarev?
[[File:Yury Bondarev 2014.jpg|thumb|Yuri Bondarev (2014)]] '''Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Ю́рий Васи́льевич Бо́ндарев}}, 15 March 1924 &ndash; 29 March 2020) was a Soviet-born Russian novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. He was born in [[Orsk]], [[Soviet Union]]. His best known novels were novels ''The Battalions Request Fire'' (1957) and ''The Last Salvoes'' (1959). He was best known for writing the scripts of the [[Liberation (movie series)|''Liberation'']] movie series (1968–71). He was twice honored with the [[Order of Lenin]]. Bondarev died on 29 March 2020 in [[Moscow]] at the age of 96.<ref>[https://tass.ru/kultura/8109675 Умер писатель Юрий Бондарев] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bondarev, Yuri}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Russian novelists]] [[Category:Russian screenwriters]] [[Category:Soviet essayists]] [[Category:Soviet writers]] {{bio-stub}}