Timur Gaidar was Soviet

Soviet Union

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Russians

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 rear admiral

Rear Admiral

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, writer and journalist. He was supposed to be the prototype for Timur from Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Petrovich Golikov Gaidar was born in the town of Lgov in Imperial Russia, now in Kursk Oblast, Russia, to a family of teachers. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged...

's book Timur and His Squad that was the inspiration for the Timurite movement

Timurite movement

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Gaidar was born in Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

, the son of Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Petrovich Golikov Gaidar was born in the town of Lgov in Imperial Russia, now in Kursk Oblast, Russia, to a family of teachers. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged...

. He graduated from the Leningrad Naval School in 1948 and faculty of journalism of the Lenin Military Political Academy in 1954, served on a submarine of the Baltic Fleet

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 and the Pacific Ocean Fleet. Worked in newspapers from 1957, The Soviet Fleet, The Red Star

The Red Star

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, and Pravda

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Gaidar died in Moscow

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. His widow is Ariadna Bazhova (born 1925, daughter of the Russian writer Pavel Bazhov

Pavel Bazhov

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writer.Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket , based on the Urals folklore and published in the Soviet Union in 1939. In 1944, the translation of the collection into English was published in New York and London...

). Yegor Gaidar

Yegor Gaidar

Yegor Timurovich Gaidar was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992....

, a Russian politician, was their son.