Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Rasputin
Rasputin in 2011
Born	Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (1937-03-15)15 March 1937 Ust-Uda, East Siberian Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	14 March 2015(2015-03-14) (aged 77) Moscow, Russia
Alma mater	Irkutsk State University
Genre	Fiction
Years active	1966–2015
Notable works	Farewell to Matyora

Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (/ræˈspjuːtɪn/;^[1] Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 1937 – 14 March 2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life, addressing complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival.