The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation will include works by Soviet writers in the federal general educational programs, including Nicholas Ostrovsky’s novel “How Steel”, the epic “Quiet Don” Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian media reported.
“[The school curriculum] has already included” Young Guard “by Alexander Fadeev … and Roman Epopepa M.A. Sholokhov” Quiet Don “and other works. We will continue this work. We will include Roman N.A. Ostrovsky “How Steel was tempered”, the story of A.N. Tolstoy “Russian Character”, the story of S.S. Smirnov “Brest Fortress”. I consider this a very correct proposal, “said the head of the ministry Sergey Kravtsov.
The Russian school program also includes the novel by Yuri Bondarev “Hot Snow” and the poem by Konstantin Simonov “The Son of the Artillery”, as well as other works on which the pre -war and post -war generation of the inhabitants of the USSR studied.