Timur and His Squad
1940 children's novel by Arkady Gaidar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Timur and His Squad (Russian: Тимур и его команда, romanized: Timur i yego komanda) is a short novel by Arkady Gaidar, written and first published in 1940. The book tells the story of a gang of village kids who sneak around secretly doing good deeds, protecting families whose fathers and husbands are in the Red Army, and doing battle against nasty hooligans. It had a huge impact upon the young Soviet audiences. Timurite movement (Timurovtsy), involving thousands of children, became a massive phenomenon all over the country. Timur and His Squad remained part of the curriculum in every Soviet school even up into the 1990s.[1][2]
Author | Arkady Gaidar |
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Original title | Тимур и его команда |
Country | USSR |
Language | Russian |
Genre | Children's literature |
Publisher | Detskaya Literatura, Moscow |
Publication date | 1940 |
Media type | |
ISBN | 978-5-353-06022-2 |
The short novel was adapted into two feature films, Timur and His Team (1940) by Aleksandr Razumny and Timur and His Team (1976) by Aleksandr Blank and Sergei Linkov.