Viktor Muravin

Viktor Muravin (born 1929) is an author, best known for his novel Aurora Borealis, also published under the title The Diary of Vikenty Angarov. Born in Vladivostok, in his youth he joined the Pioneers and the Komsomol. He worked as a horse-wrangler and agricultural worker,{{cite book |author=Muravin, Viktor |title=The Diary of Vikenty Angarov |publisher=Prentice-Hall of Canada |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwVhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22victor+muravin%22|year=1978 |pages=17 |isbn=0-13-208488-0 }} and by 1978 he lived in New York City.{{cite journal |url=http://www.thenation.com/archive/detail/11147516 |title=Siberia: Domestic & Imported |author =Robinson, Harlow | date=September 9, 1978 |journal=The Nation }} His novel, partly based on a friend's experiences{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/135060702.html?dids=135060702:135060702&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=MAY+21%2C+1978&author=By+DAVID+LAPEZA&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Surviving+In+Siberia&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525120350/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/135060702.html?dids=135060702:135060702&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=MAY+21,+1978&author=By+DAVID+LAPEZA&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Surviving+In+Siberia&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |title=Surviving In Siberia: The Diary of Vikenty Angarov|author=David Lapeza |date=May 21, 1978|pages=E4 |newspaper=The Washington Post }} describes the survival of former sea-captain Angarov in the labor camps of Siberia.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSeGHQAACAAJ&q=%22Victor+Muravin+%22 |title=The Diary of Vikenty Angarov -Kirkus Reviews |isbn=978-0-460-04406-6 |last1=Muravin |first1=Viktor |date=1979-06-21|publisher=J.M. Dent & Son }}