Publishing house "Ogonyok" — "Terra-Book Club" Moscow — 2008. Lev Abramovich Kassil (1905970). “I began to exist in 1905 .. It happened in the village of Pokrovskaya, now the city of Engels, which is against Saratov on the Volga, on July 10 according to the new style. The time was hot, and the year, as you know, was hot the year of the first Russian revolution, the year called “general rehearsal”, writes in his “Torture of Autobiography” Lev Kassil .. In 1925 he began his literary career.. He is attracted to .......... [ In. Mayakovsky to work in the magazine "New LEF" (1927), in 1920-1930-ies cooperates with the magazine "Pioneer", more than nine years working in the newspaper "Izvestiya" ........ The first books of Kassil for children are published: “Tasty Factory” (1930), “Planetarium” (1931), “Boat-all-terrain vehicle” (1933), autobiographical novels “Conduit” (1930) and “Schvambraniya” (1933), in 1935 combined into one book .. About sport: "The goalkeeper of the Republic" (1938), "The White Queen's Walk" (1956), "The Gladiator's Cup" (1960). During the Great Patriotic War, Kassil worked as a military correspondent in the Northern Fleet. He wrote books about the children of the war: Cherymysh, brother of the hero (1938), My Dear Boys (1944), The Great Confrontation (1941-1947), and The Street of the Younger Son (1949). with M. L. Polyanovsky), for which in 1950 both writers were awarded the State Prize of the USSR . In 1965, Kassil was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.