Fifty-eight years ago today, on August 31, 1967 (July 26, 1967), the Soviet writer Ehrenburg died. Like Ehrenburg, Ehrenburg was born in 1891 to a family of Jewish engineers in Kiev. In 1907, he was expelled for participating in the activities of the Bolshevik underground organization while in middle school in Moscow. He was arrested the following year, released on bail and went into exile in Paris. He began his literary career by writing poetry. His poetry collections include "I Live" (1911) and "The Night Before" (1922). From 1915 to 1916, he served as a front-line correspondent for the Moscow Morning Post in France and Germany. He returned to Russia in 1917. From 1921, as a Soviet journalist stationed abroad, he wrote novels such as "The Adventures of Julio Huleni and His Students" (1922) and "Thirteen Cigarette Packs" (1923). Returning to China in the early 1930s, he wrote novels "The Next Day" (1933) and "Dry to the End" (1935), which told the story of the growth of newcomers in the era of socialist construction. From 1936 to 1939, he served as a correspondent for Izvestia in Spain. The novels "The Fall of Paris" (1941, awarded a Stalin Prize), "The Tempest" (1946-1947) and "The Great Wave" (1951-1952) depicted a broad historical picture of Europe and the Soviet Union from 1935 to 1951 before and after World War II. The novella "Thawing" (1954-1956), written about a "typical bureaucrat" who was conservative and selfish, was finally dismissed, and the work caused heated controversy. From then on, he stopped writing novels and buried himself in literary criticism and memoirs. From 1961 to 1965, he published six volumes of his long memoir "People, Years, Life". In 1987, Spark magazine published a new chapter in the unpublished volume 7. Ehrenberg died on August 31, 1967.