page_title: Ivan Vasilenko
section_title: The literary career of Ivan Vasilenko
hierarchical_section_title: Ivan Vasilenko / The literary career of Ivan Vasilenko
caption_attribution_description: English: Ivan Vasilenko memorial house and museum in downtown Taganrog
context_page_description: Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilenko, was a Russian Soviet author of children's books.
context_section_description: The literary talent of Vasilenko was discovered by Russian writer Vikenty Veresaev in 1937. All of his tales and stories written for 30 years of creative life, such as Magic Box, Childhood of the Actor, The Little Mouse, The Gordian Knot, Cocks, Green Trunk, Golden Shoes, Sunrise is only Once a Day, Merimes Watch, Family Council, Misha and Masha and others, were reissued by local, republican and central publishing houses and used large popularity both for children and for adults.
  In 1949, Vasilenko was awarded a State Stalin Prize for the story "The Little Star" about life of trade school’s students. Many books have been translated into 27 languages of USSR nations, and into Czech, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Vietnamese, French and English languages. His works The Little Star, Artyomka in the Circus, Magic Box, Golden Shoes were filmed and released as motion pictures.
  He died in Taganrog on May 26, 1966.
caption: Ivan Vasilenko memorial house and museum in downtown Taganrog.
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