The Winter Road

{{short description|Documentary novel by Leonid Yuzefovich}}

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| title_orig = Зимняя дорога

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| author = Leonid Yuzefovich

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| language = Russian

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| genre = documentary novel

| publisher = AST Yelena Shubina

| pub_date = 2015

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| media_type = Print (Hardback)

| pages =432

| isbn = 978-5-17-090038-1

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The Winter Road ({{langx|ru|Зимняя дорога}}, Zimnaya doroga) is a documentary novel by Leonid Yuzefovich first published in September 2015.{{cite web |last1=Дьякова |first1=Елена |title=Наша история долго болит |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2015/10/11/65968-nasha-istoriya-dolgo-bolit |publisher=Новая газета |access-date=6 February 2021 |language=ru |date=11 October 2015}} In 2016 the book won First Prize of the Big Book Award and the National Bestseller Literary Prize.{{cite web |last1=Сохарева |first1=Татьяна |title="Зимняя дорога" вывела к премии |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2016/12/07/a_10409621.shtml |publisher=Газета.RU |access-date=6 February 2021 |date=7 December 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Васильев |first1=Алексей |title="Нацбест" на "Зимней дороге" |url=https://rg.ru/2016/06/05/reg-szfo/leonid-iuzefovich-zavoeval-premiiu-nacionalnyj-bestseller.html |publisher=Российская Газета |access-date=6 February 2021 |language=ru |date=5 June 2016}}

Overview

The plot of The Winter Road is completely devoid of fiction and based on real events. Yuzefovich studied historical documents and personally interpreted this historical event.{{Cite journal |author = Отургашева, Наталья |editor= |format= |url= https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/dolgaya-doroga-russkih-generalov-mezhdu-pravdoy-fakta-i-pravdoy-zhizni |title= Долгая дорога русских генералов: между правдой факта и правдой жизни |journal= Philology and Culture|type= |orig-year= | agency = |edition= Филология и культура = Philology and Culture |year= 2018 |at= |volume= 3|number= 53|pages = |page= |series= |issn = 2074-0239 |doi = 10.26907/2074-0239 |bibcode = |arxiv = |pmid = |archive-url = |archive-date = |language= ru |quote= }}

The novel has the author's subtitle General A. N. Pepelyaev and anarchist I. Ya. Strod in Yakutia. 1922—1923. Documentary novel ({{langx|ru|Генерал А. Н. Пепеляев и анархист И. Я. Строд в Якутии. 1922—1923 годы. Документальный роман}}).

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