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Irina Evgenyevna Raksha was born in Moscow in 1940. When she was fourteen, she moved to the Altai region of Siberia, where her father had been appointed an agricultural specialist on one of the new state farms in the Virgin Land area. After finishing school she also started work at the state farm, driving tractors and combine harvesters, sowing, and riding horses. Her first poems, essays and stories appeared in Altai newspapers. Her neighbor and friend was Vasily Shukshin, himself to become a famous actor and writer of screenplays and stories, whose literary debut she later immortalized in her story ‘Eurasia’.
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‘The Whole Wide World’, Soviet Literature, 1979, no. 3.
‘Is It Far to Chukotka?’, Soviet Literature, 1981, no. 3.
‘Stories’ (‘What Day Is Today?’, ‘The Gold Ring Slipped from Her Finger’, ‘Beyond the Tree Was the Sun’, ‘Lambushki’), 1984, no. 3. This is the source of the version of ‘Lambushki’ printed below.
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McLaughlin, S. (1989). Irina Raksha. In: McLaughlin, S. (eds) The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20371-0_7
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