Early Life and Career
Krakhmalnikova was born in the city of Kharkov, Ukraine on January 14, 1929. Her father was arrested in 1936 during one of Joseph Stalin's many purges. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in 1954 in Moscow and completed her postgraduate work at the Gorky Institute of World Literature despite her family's background. An avid scholarly writer, Krakhmanlnikova was publishing articles in Soviet literary journals by the 1960s. She became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Institute of Sociology in 1967.
Her husband was fellow author, Feliks Svetov.
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