Grigory Adamov
Soviet writer (1886–1945)
Grigory Borisovich Adamov (Russian: Григорий Борисович Адамов; born Abram Borukhovich Gibs; Абрам Борухович Гибс; May 18, 1886 - June 14, 1945) was a Soviet science fiction writer, best known for his novels Conquerors of the Underground (1937), The Mystery of the Two Oceans (1939) and The Ousting of the Ruler (1946).
Biography
Abram Gibs was born in Kherson, the seventh child of a poor Jewish timber factory worker. Expelled from a local gymnasium due to his family's inability to pay for the course, he started to earn his living by giving lessons in grammar and arithmetic. His parents wanted him to become a doctor, but at the age of 15 Abram Gibs joined a radical youth circle, then the Kherson Bolshevik party organization.
In 1906 he was arrested and deported to the Arkhangelsk area, however, he soon escaped and made his way to Saint Petersburg, then, as part of a Bolshevik envoy group, travelled to Sevastopol and took part in the operation the end result of which was the destroying of documents of the battleship Potyomkin mutineers' trial. Arrested for agitation among Russian Black Sea Fleet sailors, Gibs was sentenced to three years in jail.
In 1911, using the pen name Grigory Adamov, Gibs started contributing to the Kherson-based Yug (South) newspaper, of which he soon became the editor. After the 1917 Revolution Adamov joined the Narkomprod (where he became friends with future academician Otto Schmidt), then Goslitizdat publishing house, all the while writing for different journals, including Nashi Dostizhenyia (Our Achievements), edited by Mikhail Koltsov. As a correspondent for Za Industrializatsiyu (For Industrialization) newspaper Adamov travelled all over the country. It was during these voyages that he developed strong interest in science and new technology.
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