How the Steel Was Tempered (Russian: Как закалялась сталь, Kak zakalyalas' stal' ) is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936) during Joseph Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character.
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